From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp-2.sys.kth.se (smtp-2.sys.kth.se [130.237.32.160]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q2REgPmh024812 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:42:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailscan-1.sys.kth.se (mailscan-1.sys.kth.se [130.237.32.91]) by smtp-2.sys.kth.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E81E14D7D5; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:42:16 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at kth.se Received: from smtp-2.sys.kth.se ([130.237.32.160]) by mailscan-1.sys.kth.se (mailscan-1.sys.kth.se [130.237.32.91]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id uHGafVHy2CYa; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:42:16 +0200 (CEST) X-KTH-Auth: kristaps [193.10.49.5] X-KTH-mail-from: kristaps@bsd.lv Received: from ctime.hhs.se (ctime.hhs.se [193.10.49.5]) by smtp-2.sys.kth.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3A7D14F126; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:42:15 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4F71D1C7.7060700@bsd.lv> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:42:15 +0200 From: Kristaps Dzonsons User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; OpenBSD amd64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110805 Thunderbird/5.0 X-Mailinglist: mdocml-tech Reply-To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason McIntyre CC: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv, Joel Dahl Subject: Re: `Cd' and non-pairwise-breaking in SYNOPSIS. References: <4F71C6B3.9080302@bsd.lv> <20120327141931.GB8234@harkle.home.gateway> In-Reply-To: <20120327141931.GB8234@harkle.home.gateway> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > 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 -- To unsubscribe send an email to tech+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv