At 2017-05-02T18:34:50+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > But you are right that i should probably adjust the in-line macros > (that is, .B, .I, .SM, .SB) as well, even though for them, the > damage is minor, wrong font at the worst - and even that is unlikely > to happen in practice, because why would anybody do something like > > .B > three \c > bold \c > words > and then back to the default font. > > rather than simply > > .B three bold words > and then back to the default font. > > ?
Or even
.B
three bold words
> I really hope that in manual pages, nobody does stunts like
>
> .TH TEST 1 2017-05-02
> .SH NAME
> test \- descr
> .SH DESCRIPTION
> .B
> three \c
> .gcolor red
> bold \c
> .gcolor
> words
> and then back to the default font.
On my (Debian stretch) system, no one uses .gcolor requests in _any_ man
page--thank God.
find /usr/share/man/man* -type f -and -not -type l | xargs zgrep
'^\.\s*gcolor'
$ find /usr/share/man/man* -type f -and -not -type l \
| xargs zgrep '^\.\s*gcolor' || echo none
none
Regards,
Branden
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