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* mdocml's .Ql doesn't map to original and GNU mdoc(7)
@ 2014-12-29 12:17 Steffen Nurpmeso
  2014-12-29 19:36 ` Ingo Schwarze
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Steffen Nurpmeso @ 2014-12-29 12:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tech

'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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2014-12-31 20:51     ` Ingo Schwarze
2015-01-01 19:01       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
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