From: Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 21:32:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201808130132.w7D1WVJ3123817@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
> Why create ms when you have mm?
Well, the real reason is that ms was the very first macro package.
It has held up spectactularly well, evolving much less than the
underlying [ntg]roff.
Doug
next reply other threads:[~2018-08-13 1:33 UTC|newest]
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2018-08-13 1:32 Doug McIlroy [this message]
2018-08-13 6:34 ` arnold
2018-08-14 20:29 Doug McIlroy
2018-08-15 2:39 ` ron
2018-08-15 6:22 ` arnold
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