Follow-up Comment #8, bug #67838 (group groff):

[comment #7 comment #7:]
> that's the objective of the now-closed-as-Duplicate bug #67082.

We seem to be reading that ticket through different lenses.  To me, its
objective was fixing a couple of misdirected Prev/Next links in the manual,
both of which (and many others) are now covered by the patch here.

> a concrete presentation of a "full-service" macro package is
> valuable to ground the reader concretely in the functions that
> such a package must serve.

I'm not sure the manual should single out one macro package as the standard to
illustrate higher-level functions.

I don't claim my path to roff competency is typical or representative, but
starting with Allman's -me manual served me well before I ever needed to delve
into lower-level functions, and I'm sure the -ms manual can serve that purpose
apart from the Texinfo manual just as well as within it.  In fact, for a long
time I found the -ms chapter to be clutter returning useless results when
searching the manual for something, until I learned to effectively excise it.


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