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[groff] 01/01: Cease abusing .IP in running text, it's bad style and not


From: Eric S. Raymond
Subject: [groff] 01/01: Cease abusing .IP in running text, it's bad style and not safe.
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2016 19:40:20 +0000

esr pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit cda7fe6fd767de5d231eedb079c8eef6eccefa32
Author: Eric S. Raymond <address@hidden>
Date:   Sat Mar 5 14:40:06 2016 -0500

    Cease abusing .IP in running text, it's bad style and not safe.
    
    Spotted by doclifter.
---
 src/roff/grog/grog.1.man |   28 ----------------------------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/roff/grog/grog.1.man b/src/roff/grog/grog.1.man
index 386d28b..e920f95 100644
--- a/src/roff/grog/grog.1.man
+++ b/src/roff/grog/grog.1.man
@@ -54,12 +54,6 @@ Bernd Warken
 .el .ds EL \&.\|.\|.\&\"
 .\" called with \*(EL
 .
-.\" Bullet
-.ie t .ds BU \(bu
-.el .ds BU *
-.\" used in `.IP \*(BU 2m' (former .Topic)
-.
-.
 .\" --------------------------------------------------------------------
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .\" --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -352,24 +346,19 @@ is used instead.
 .SH EXAMPLES
 .\" --------------------------------------------------------------------
 .
-.IP \*(BU 2m
 Calling
 .RS
-.IP
 .EX
 grog meintro.me
 .EE
 .RE
-.IP
 results in
 .RS
 .EX
-.IP
 groff \-me meintro.me
 .EE
 .RE
 .
-.IP
 So
 .B grog
 recognized that the file
@@ -380,26 +369,21 @@ macro package.
 .RE
 .
 .
-.IP \*(BU 2m
 On the other hand,
 .RS
-.IP
 .EX
 grog pic.ms
 .EE
 .RE
 .
-.IP
 outputs
 .
 .RS
-.IP
 .EX
 groff \-p \-t \-e \-ms pic.ms
 .EE
 .RE
 .
-.IP
 Besides determining the macro package
 .BR \-ms ,
 .B grog
@@ -421,54 +405,44 @@ for
 .RE
 .
 .
-.IP \*(BU 2m
 If both of the former example files are combined by the command
 .
 .RS
-.IP
 .EX
 grog meintro.me pic.ms
 .EE
 .RE
 .
-.IP
 an error message is sent to standard error because
 .B groff
 cannot work with two different macro packages:
 .
 .RS
-.IP
 .ft CR
 grog: error: there are several macro packages: \-me \-ms
 .ft
 .RE
 .
-.IP
 Additionally the corresponding output with the wrong options is printed
 to standard output:
 .
 .RS
-.IP
 .EX
 groff \-pte \-me \-ms meintro.me pic.ms
 .EE
 .RE
 .
-.IP
 But the program is terminated with an error code.
 .
 .
-.IP \*(BU 2m
 The call of
 .
 .RS
-.IP
 .EX
 grog \-ksS \-Tdvi grnexmpl.g
 .EE
 .RE
 .
-.IP
 contains several
 .B groff
 options that are just passed on the output without any interface to
@@ -487,13 +461,11 @@ with argument
 The output is
 .
 .RS
-.IP
 .EX
 groff \-k \-s \-S \-Tdvi grnexmpl.g
 .EE
 .RE
 .
-.IP
 so no additional option was added by
 .BR grog .
 As no option



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