December 5, 2019 4:34 PM, "Ingo Schwarze" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Jason, > > Jason McIntyre wrote on Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 02:54:20PM +0000: > >> i have reverted it, with a heavy heart. > > Do you think i should try and convince the groff folks to always > render .Aq/.Ao/.Ac as ASCII '<' and '>', even in UTF-8, HTML, PDF > output and the like? > > Benefits: > > + easier rules for authors, smaller risk of mistakes, > and ".Aq Mt" would no longer be an exception > + allows nicer and simpler mdoc(7) source code > for configuration file documentation like smtpd.conf and pf.conf > and nicer markup in pages documenting HTML code > + in programming documentation (as opposed to, say, quantum physics > calculations) angle brackets are exceedingly rare, > making .Aq mostly useless under the current rules > > Downside: > > - In cases where authors really want angle brackets - e.g., does > a free software package to help with quantum mechanics calculations > exist? - the output will look slightly worse, but not much worse, > and given the rarity, i think that would be acceptable. Besides, > people who want real angle brackets in some unusual situation > can still use .Eo \(la foobar Ec \(ra . > To me this already looks like quantum mechanics calculations :-p
