Hi Branden, On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 08:21:59AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Regarding PP, LP, and P, what's the history of them? Why do we have > > the 3? I'm willing to reduce them to just one. > > We covered this in another thread, but as Ingo noted, there is no hope > of actually _retiring_ any of these. At most they can be documentarily > deprecated and a high "-rCHECKSTYLE" setting can gripe about them. Makes sense. > > groff man(7) formats every Seventh Edition Unix (1979) man page > correctly as far as I can tell, and I don't want to ever give that up. > > (This is a slightly different objective from preserving perfect > compatibility with 7th edition's tmac.an. I have no qualms about > discarding compatibility with details of macro package behavior that no > one relied upon for practical purposes.) This gives me hope in changing the behavior of RS. :P Cheers, Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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