Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes: > You would have needed to take it up with Joseph Ossanna and Brian > Kernighan, since *roff has worked this way since the beginning of the > formatting language.
Note that “blame the makers of groff” is *not* what I'm saying; they make their decisions in the context of their times, and I'm fine with that. > At the time, this was reasonably standard practice. Right. But now it's horrible legacy behaviour. I don't see any reason to avoid acknowledging that with apologetics like “don't blame groff”. I do blame groff. Finding fault with groff gives a chance that the situation may some day be improved. Without knowing where the fault lies, it's that much more difficult to fix it. -- \ “Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may | `\ hear from others twice as much as we speak.” —Epictetus, | _o__) _Fragments_ | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
