From: Steffen Nurpmeso <sdaoden@yandex.com>
To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: mdocml's .Ql doesn't map to original and GNU mdoc(7)
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 13:17:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141229121746.vAh4wKsy%sdaoden@yandex.com> (raw)
'Morning,
mdocml's mdoc.7 says
Ql single-quoted literal text: `text'
but that is not what .Ql is about:
.Ql The quoted literal macro behaves differently in troff
and nroff mode. If formatted with @L_NROFF@(1)[221], a
quoted literal is always quoted. If formatted with
troff, an item is only quoted if the width of the item
is less than three constant width characters. This is
to make short strings more visible where the font
change to literal (constant width) is less noticeable.
The behaviour is already device-dependent in "old -mdoc", before
1991-03-07. (Without history i'm guessing, but maybe mdocml was
ment for TTY only at first glance, in which case the above is
absolutely correct, but it lost that property once more output
formats where added?)
Ciao,
--steffen
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-29 12:17 Steffen Nurpmeso [this message]
2014-12-29 19:36 ` Ingo Schwarze
2014-12-29 20:20 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2014-12-31 20:51 ` Ingo Schwarze
2015-01-01 19:01 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2015-01-02 12:36 ` Ingo Schwarze
2015-01-02 14:29 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2015-01-02 16:03 ` Ingo Schwarze
2015-01-02 18:56 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
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