Re: mdocml's .Ql doesn't map to original and GNU mdoc(7)

[Steffen Nurpmeso <sdaoden@yandex.com>]

Happy new year!

Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de> wrote:
 |Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 09:20:24PM +0100:
 |
 |> The problem i (actually) have (had) with this is (that) mdocml's
 |> mdoc.7 is installed in place of the "upstream" version (in fact
 |> even overwriting it if you don't be careful) and can be expected
 |> to increasingly become _the_ source of information on mdoc(7),
 |> except maybe in some hardcore GNU places.
 |
 |That's indeed true.

Indeed.

 |> As such it spreads
 |> false information, which will bite the unaware: i maybe was only
 |> the first in a long long line of misleaded persons.
 |
 |I now see the point, so i committed the fix appended below.
 |
 |Thanks for insisting,

Oh, rarely seen have been cases where i could more easily continue
insisting since your commit

 |

 |retrieving revision 1.247
 |diff -Lmdoc.7 -Lmdoc.7 -u -p -r1.246 -r1.247
 |--- mdoc.7
 |+++ mdoc.7
 |@@ -2201,9 +2201,12 @@ See also
 | Close quoted context opened by
 | .Sx \&Qo .
 | .Ss \&Ql
 |-Format a single-quoted literal.
 |+Request a literal font and enclose in single quotes.
 |+For arguments of three or more characters, formatters other than
 |+.Xr mandoc 1
 |+usually omit the quotes on non-terminal output devices.
 | See also
 |-.Sx \&Qq
 |+.Sx \&Li
 | and
 | .Sx \&Sq .
 | .Ss \&Qo

seems to happily ignore to replace that style-centric

  -.It Sx \&Ql Ta single-quoted literal text: Ql text

with the definitely more correct semantics-centric

  +.It Sx \&Ql Ta format quoted literal text: Ql text

which the quoted literal mark-up command .Ql is all about.

 |  Ingo

But now i feel rather hesitant.. and.. no, i won't continue.
Ciao,

--steffen
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