From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, doug@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 00:22:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201808150622.w7F6MmT8007272@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201808142029.w7EKTAhh040340@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>
I wasn't aware of the history / distinction, thanks.
Arnold
Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> An arguable distinction:
>
> I thought hard about claiming priority for -ms. Joe Ossanna intended
> option -m to foster macro packages from the outset. -man was an early use,
> hidden in the man command. But -man was not packaged (in the sense of
> being an announced feature that can be used from its external description)
> until v7. -ms appeared in v6.
>
> Doug
>
> Arnold Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
>
> > Doug McIlroy <doug at 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. :-)
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2018-08-14 20:29 Doug McIlroy
2018-08-15 2:39 ` ron
2018-08-15 6:22 ` arnold [this message]
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2018-08-13 1:32 Doug McIlroy
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