* Re: [TUHS] groff_man question
@ 2019-07-09 18:29 Doug McIlroy
0 siblings, 0 replies; only message in thread
From: Doug McIlroy @ 2019-07-09 18:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: tuhs
I wouldn't call it an error, merely a misleading sentence. .EX/.EE is,
after all, an extension in Gnu, albeit not original to Gnu. And I
didn't intend to impugn anybody. The sentence, "Ingo Schwarze stated
incorrectly" was apparently slipped into the quotation to provide
missing context. I do appreciate, however, how quickly the
inexactness was repaired.
Doug
| Doug McIlroy wrote on Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 11:17:32PM -0400:
| > Ingo Schwarze stated incorrectly:
|
| >> EE This is a non-standard GNU extension. In mandoc(1), it does the
| >> same as the roff(7) fi request (switch to fill mode).
|
| >>
| >> EX This is a non-standard GNU extension. In mandoc(1), it does the
| >> same as the roff(7) nf request (switch to no-fill mode).
|
| > "Gnu extension" should be read as "extension adopted by Gnu".
| > .EX/.EE was introduced in 9th Edition Unix.
|
| Thank you for pointing out the error, i corrected the manual page
| in OpenBSD and in portable mandoc, see the commit below.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] only message in thread
only message in thread, other threads:[~2019-07-09 18:29 UTC | newest]
Thread overview: (only message) (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2019-07-09 18:29 [TUHS] groff_man question Doug McIlroy
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).