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From: Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
To: Jason McIntyre <jmc@cava.myzen.co.uk>
Cc: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv, Joel Dahl <joel@vnode.se>
Subject: Re: `Cd' and non-pairwise-breaking in SYNOPSIS.
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:42:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F71D1C7.7060700@bsd.lv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120327141931.GB8234@harkle.home.gateway>

> maybe it's best not to think of Cd as an exclusively SYNOPSIS macro. why
> go to the trouble of altering current (and groff) behaviour, just to
> match the doc? it only says that because, presumably, you wrote it.
>
> i've no idea if there's a good reason for it or not. but groff does
> explicitly document how it behaves.
>
> i see no good reason for the change. but having said that, i don;t
> overly object to it.

Hi jmc,

I don't understand -- the patch makes `Cd' behave like the other special 
SYNOPSIS macros instead of having it be a special case that requires 
`Pp' when followed by other macros.

I suppose the existing behaviour is cause `Cd' traditionally occured in 
SYNOPSIS sections on its own.  But the existence of pim(4) and friends 
shows this is no longer the case.

Also, where do you see groff explicitly documenting the zany SYNOPSIS 
line-breaking behaviour?  I can only find notes in the doc.tmac source 
itself.

Thanks,

Kristaps
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-27 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-27 13:54 Kristaps Dzonsons
     [not found] ` <20120327141931.GB8234@harkle.home.gateway>
2012-03-27 14:42   ` Kristaps Dzonsons [this message]
2012-04-15 21:15 ` Ingo Schwarze

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