On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 05:48:58PM +0200, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
>
> > Well, there's specifying a second argument to the FD macro
> > which causes the footnote counter to get reset at each
> > first-level heading, but that appears to be just as
> > undocumented.
>
> >From HP's "Text Formatting User's Guide" (ca. 1991):
>
> If the second argument is specified, automatically-numbered
> footnotes begin again with 1 whenever a first-level heading
> is encountered. This is most useful with the "section-page"
> page numbering scheme. As an example, the input line
>
> .FD "" 1
>
> maintains the default formatting style and causes footnotes
> to be numbered afresh after each first-level heading in a
> document.
This was already there in the "PWB/MM Programmer's Workbench Memorandom
Macros", D.W. Smith and J.R. Mashey, October 1977.
So there only a bug in the groff_mm manual page.
The same document also mentions the names used by PWB/MM in the chapter
"Extending and Modifying the Macros":
registers: Aa (most common, accessible to users)
An (common, accessible to user)
A (accessible, set on command line)
:x (mostly internal, rarely accessiblem usually dedicated)
;x (internal, dynamic, temporaries)
Seen this, I suggest not to provide aliases for registers :x.
This only clutters up the name-space for registers.
Gr,
Bob
