Ben Finney <[email protected]> writes:
> 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.

Sure, I understand.  I just wanted to mention.

(Also, it's not groff -- groff is a specific implementation of the
language which is much newer than the underlying language.  Just to be
pedantic.)

-- 
Russ Allbery ([email protected])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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