[bug #64455] [ms] want support for 4.2BSD `CT` and `TM` extensions

[G. Branden Robinson]

URL:
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                 Summary: [ms] want support for 4.2BSD `CT` and `TM`
extensions
                   Group: GNU roff
               Submitter: gbranden
               Submitted: Fri 21 Jul 2023 10:20:25 AM UTC
                Category: Macro ms
                Severity: 1 - Wish
              Item Group: Feature change
                  Status: Postponed
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None


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Date: Fri 21 Jul 2023 10:20:25 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Reported by brian m. carlson as
[https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=241394 Debian #241394].

This ticket is starting life "postponed" because I don't see hopeful prospects
for its resolution at this time.

* All other _documented_ (by Tuthill) 4.2BSD extensions to _ms_ are
implemented in _groff ms_ and have been for many years.
* The macro names `CT` and `TM` collide with Bell Labs uses.  Granted, those
are for cover sheet management and we don't support them either.
* But adding Berkeley `CT` and `TM` support would require complicating the
package to select between AT&T and BSD dialects of _ms_, something we have so
far largely avoided.
* Volunteers for this work are few.







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