On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 01:31:04PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Branden, > > G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 02:42:27AM -0400: > > > Follow-up Comment #6, bug #53547 (project groff): > > > > I did not find any need for this: > > > > \# The next argument must be longer than the indent from .TP (8n) > > > > or the spaces they refer to, nor for the transparent line indicators. > > I don't have the slightest idea what Bjarni thought when > proposing this change: >
This was an experimentation > @@ -276,7 +276,10 @@ > in the order shown. > . > .TP > -.B .RP [no] > +\#.B .RP [no] > +\!.B .RP \c > +\# The next argument must be longer than the indent from .TP (8n) > +.RB [ no ]\ \ \ \ \ \" > Specifies the report format for your document. > . > The report format creates a separate cover page. > > It looks totally bogus to me on more than one level. You most > certainly do not want any of "\#", "\!", "\ \ \ " in a manual > page and you also most certainly do not want > > .B anything \c > .RB anything > Yes, this is realy crazy. I must have been infected by "bold roman italic ...". The "\!" and "\ \ \ ..." are not needed when the request ".itc" is used instead of ".it". [...] -- Bjarni I. Gislason _______________________________________________ bug-groff mailing list bug-groff@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-groff
