From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailout.scc.kit.edu (mailout.scc.kit.edu [129.13.185.202]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s5NKfk7V020421 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:41:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hekate.usta.de (asta-nat.asta.uni-karlsruhe.de [172.22.63.82]) by scc-mailout-02.scc.kit.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72 #1) id 1WzB3h-00068F-0x; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 22:41:45 +0200 Received: from donnerwolke.usta.de ([172.24.96.3]) by hekate.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1WzB3Y-0002Qk-NY; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 22:41:36 +0200 Received: from iris.usta.de ([172.24.96.5] helo=usta.de) by donnerwolke.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WzB9i-0000aQ-UE; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 22:47:58 +0200 Received: from schwarze by usta.de with local (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1WzB3g-0003bE-VS; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 22:41:44 +0200 Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 22:41:44 +0200 From: Ingo Schwarze To: Thomas Klausner Cc: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv, Jason McIntyre Subject: Re: deprecate .Tn and .Ux Message-ID: <20140623204144.GE619@iris.usta.de> References: <20140622185528.GH15298@iris.usta.de> <20140622210005.GA6196@harkle.home.gateway> <20140623195535.GD619@iris.usta.de> <20140623201531.GA9314@danbala.tuwien.ac.at> 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: <20140623201531.GA9314@danbala.tuwien.ac.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Hi Thomas, Thomas Klausner wrote on Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:15:31PM +0200: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 09:55:35PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> Hmm... Any comments from other BSDs, or whom do you think >> should we ask about this in your projects, in case you fear >> people might get upset about it? > I don't have a problem with it as long as Tn/Ux still work for now > (too many occurrences in the NetBSD man pages). But that seems to be > what the patch does, Exactly. I don't plan code changes to remove support for old stuff at all. I want to be able to use mandoc to view original Version 7 AT&T UNIX and original 2BSD - 4.4BSD manuals out of the box (Version 6 and 1BSD won't work, though, they use an older macro set). This is exclusively about which usage we want to encourage or discourage in modern manuals. > so it's ok with me. Thanks for taking a look! Ingo -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv