From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from kerhand.co.uk (_smtpd@82-69-137-214.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.137.214]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o636sif5032620 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 02:54:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (1000@localhost [IPv6:::1]) by kerhand.co.uk (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 1278140082.IFV1O891opVuDEbL for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 07:54:18 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 07:54:18 +0100 From: Jason McIntyre To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: desired .Bk semantics? Message-ID: <20100703065442.GA5970@bramka.kerhand.co.uk> References: <20100702234320.GC6026@iris.usta.de> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100702234320.GC6026@iris.usta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 01:43:20AM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi, > > after much headbanging while trying to understand tmac files, > i guess i finally figured out what .Bk -words is supposed to do. > It seems it has nothing to do with macros, but simply with - > lines in the input file! My impression is that .Bk -words > avoids line breaks inside the output generated from each input > line. Perhaps that's why it is called -words (as opposed to -line). > Duh. > according to mdoc.samples(7) it is useful for "preventing line breaks in the middle of options", and that is how i've always used it. i just realised that the same piece of text notes that the effect was once achieved using the Op macro. so my understanding is it has nothing to do with keeping "words". but god knows. jmc -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv