Thank you for the patch and the information what's portable or not for man pages. I must admit that I've never took the time to learn which of the troff and groff marcros are portable.
-- Daniel Carl Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: > Hi, > > here is a cleanup of the manual page. > The patch applies to release 2.9. > > Rationale, major points: > > * Esr's man-ext .SY macro is not portable. > Even esr himself recommends to copy the implementation > into the manual page itself if you *must* use it. > But in the case at hand, it does almost nothing, > so just use the portable .B instead. > * The glyph names \[char34] and \[char92] are not portable > at all, but internal, undocumented groff features at best, > and i'm surprised they work at all even with groff. > Better use the portable \(dq and \e. > > Rationale, minor points: > > * The first .TH argument is by convention ALL CAPS. > * Use .PP and .sp as appropriate rather than blank lines. > * Drop useless .RS 0. > * New sentence, new line (sorry, that causes some churn). > * Some typos. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ vimb-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vimb-users
