Update of bug #68543 (group groff):
Summary: [man] want `EF` string or similar for
user-configurable "example" typeface => [man] want `EF` string or similar for
user-configurable "example" font family
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Follow-up Comment #11:
Revising summary. What Deri requested in comment #3 was support for a
user-configurable font _family_ for rendering of `EX`/`EE` regions.
Purely aesthetics, I think there are more modern mono font families which
look
nicer. Here are some examples:-
T-C.pdf (our default: TimesRoman & Courier)
T-LibC.pdf (TimesRoman & LiberationMono) Weird 'fi' ligature in word
'definition' Ugh!
T-SCP.pdf (TimesRoman & SourceCodePro)
Tinos-SCP.pdf (Tinos & SourceCodePro) My favourite.
CN-SCP.pdf (ComicNeue & SourceCodePro) A bit of fun!
That's an important distinction, as the macros are written assuming that the
four conventional styles (R, B, I, and BI) will be available.
(Strictly, that's not `EX`/`EE`'s own presumption but that of the rest of the
package, and even more strictly, _man_(7) doesn't expose a direct interface to
the `BI` style.)
The point is that one has always been able to do this:
.EX
roman stuff
.B "bold stuff"
.I "italic stuff"
.EE
...and we don't want to break that, where "break" includes derpily returning
to a proportional typeface for bold and italic content.
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