URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68015>
Summary: deprecate/withdraw `\s[0]` and `\s'0'` in favor of
`\s[]` and `\s''` as reversion to previous type size
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Thu 05 Feb 2026 12:11:30 AM UTC
Category: Core
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Feature change
Status: Postponed
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Planned Release: None
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Date: Thu 05 Feb 2026 12:11:30 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
People sometimes think `.ps 0` means the same thing as `\s0`.
It doesn't.
We could support instead `\s[]` and `\s''` as escape sequences to revert to
the previous type size. Neither the bracketed nor the delimited forms of `\s`
exist in CSTR #54 (1992 revision).
We could also throw a deprecation warning on `\s0` _outside of compatibility
mode only_.
Born postponed.
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