On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 06:42:37PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > Subject: [d...@cs.dartmouth.edu: Re: weird \s] > > ... > Anyone arguing for \sDD is just misguided. If you want two things > it is \s(12, if you want N things, groff gave you \s[1234]. > > Could we please just converge on this spec? I'm old and tired but > if we can get agreement on this and noone wants to do the code I'll > take a swing at it.
I'm in favour of this. If there are important reasons to preserve legacy documents, put them in a revision control system and use a sed script (as previously suggested) or something similar to make a modern version. -- Steve -- Steve Izma - Home: 35 Locust St., Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2H 1W6 E-mail: si...@golden.net phone: 519-745-1313 cell (text only; not frequently checked): 519-998-2684 == I have always felt the necessity to verify what to many seemed a simple multiplication table. -- Ilya Ehrenburg (Soviet author and critic; he's not talking about mathematics)