Re: Space after .E[dl...]?

[Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 01:31:19AM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> However, this is not just a question of what we like better,
> but also a question of compatibility.  There are three aspects
> to compatibility:

I understand your point. Most (if not all) mdoc man pages that a
typical BSD user is interested in will come with their operating
system though, so I don't see it as such a big hindrance as you do,
because we can fix them.

> (3) There are thousands of real-world manuals written for the
> old behaviour.  Quite probably, there are some that will look
> worse after the change because the additional blank line is not
> an improvement in their particular case, even if it is in many
> other cases, and the authors of course relied on the fact that
> there is no blank line.  Before even proposing this change in
> the language definition, i'd like some rough estimate, or at
> least feeling, how many pages might be affected by this effect,
> and how much effort we are imposing on people like jmc@ to
> clean up the tree after the change.

For backwards compat, I'd like to have Pp after El etc. ignored; this
should fix this problem.

Thanks for your feedback!
 Thomas
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