"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> writes:
> Schematically: > IP > +-- ordered/enumerated list item (HTML: <OL><LI>) > +-- unordered/marked list item (HTML: <UL><LI>) > TP > +-- definition list item (HTML: <DL><LI>) [citation needed] I have not seen any indication that the difference between .TP and .IP has any semantic meaning in the documentation that I have previously reason. It's of course possible that I have missed something along the way. pod2man has used .IP exclusively since Tom Christansen's original version in the 1990s, so the corpus of man pages that a semantic change to .IP will break is not small. > On the bright side, I know of no man(7) generator that is so militant, > so, with a _little_ adaptation on their part, we can more strongly > semantically distinguish the purposes of `IP` and `TP`, and potentially > reap rich rewards in improving the searchability and navigability of > man(7) documents. I appreciate why you want to do this, but I'm not particularly enthused about helping. It seems like a hack. I have been headed in the opposite direction in general in pod2man from hard-won experience: removing attempts to guess at the user's meaning by imposing semantics where there were no semantics in the original input, and accepting the limitations of the input method. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
