Re: MR macro (from GNU groff)

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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Hi Ingo,

On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 11:31:48PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Alejandro,
> 
> Alejandro Colomar wrote on Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 10:09:56PM +0200:
> 
> > As you know, I have plans to start using MR from GNU groff.  But doing
> > so without wide support from distros and formatters would be stupid.
> [...]
> > Do you have plans to add support for the MR macro?
> 
> Yes, it will be added.  It shouldn't bee too difficult because it's
> essentially a clone of mdoc(7) .Xr.  Also, it is somewhat urgent
> because the groff manual pages already use it, so i have to
> support it in mandoc(1) before i can update the OpenBSD groff port
> to 1.23.

Thanks!

> 
> The MF string register will be ignored, though.  mandoc(1) will
> always set the topic (or to use a more precise term, the *name*)
> of the manual page linked to in the R font.

Sounds reasonable to me, for consistency with mandoc(1)'s formatting of
mdoc(7).

Cheers,
Alex

> 
> Yours,
>   Ingo
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