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Date: Mon,  7 Jun 2004 08:55:11 +0000
From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] troff and 4.4BSD man pages
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boyd, rounin wrote:
> i think we [Christophe ?] and i found that the registers could
> be now named with multi char names, yesterday.  iirc:
>     .nr foo 1 1
>     ...
>     \([foo]
> now, that is not troff.

What is especially unfortunate is that SoftQuad did a
better job of designing such extensions to troff, but
whoever did the above came up with an incompatible
scheme.