[self-follow-up; dropping Russ from CC because it's a pretty obscure point of *roff semantics]
At 2024-03-17T15:52:55-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > [6] I've marked `SB` as deprecated in the forthcoming groff 1.24; it > does nothing that modern formatters can't achieve by combining `SM` > and `B`. I suspect Sun created it because the `it` *roff request > behaved inconsistently with other requests that took a line count as > an argument, like `ce` and `ul`, ignoring the `\c` escape sequence > as the latter two did not. (Skeptics may feel free to play with the > attachment, and to guess where I've tried it out.) That in turn is > why GNU troff has an `itc` request. Or such is my reconstruction of > past developers' decisions based purely on parsimony and measurable > program behavior, assuming rational decision making. A person can set their watch by my forgetting the attachment. This time for sure. Regards, Branden
.ce 2 one two \c three .ul 2 one two \c three .de xx . sp 2 .. .it 2 xx one two \c three
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