From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, doug@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 00:34:06 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201808130634.w7D6Y66T030631@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201808130132.w7D1WVJ3123817@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>
Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> > 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
Or say, rather, the first *general purpose* macro package. The man
macros predate it. :-)
Arnold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-13 6:34 UTC|newest]
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2018-08-13 1:32 Doug McIlroy
2018-08-13 6:34 ` arnold [this message]
2018-08-14 20:29 Doug McIlroy
2018-08-15 2:39 ` ron
2018-08-15 6:22 ` arnold
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