[groff] 02/03: groff_me(7): Confirm origin of macro package name.

[G. Branden Robinson]

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit ef25e6a7c2e8900fe2051088264a788e357c11c2
Author: G. Branden Robinson <address@hidden>
Date:   Tue Nov 27 22:09:14 2018 -0500

    groff_me(7): Confirm origin of macro package name.
    
    Also fix style nit: add single empty request after section heading, for
    consistency with other groff man pages.
    
    Signed-off-by: G. Branden Robinson <address@hidden>
---
 tmac/groff_me.7.man | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tmac/groff_me.7.man b/tmac/groff_me.7.man
index 3e972b4..ac20111 100644
--- a/tmac/groff_me.7.man
+++ b/tmac/groff_me.7.man
@@ -443,6 +443,7 @@ T}
 .\" ====================================================================
 .SH NOTES
 .\" ====================================================================
+.
 Early
 .I roff
 macro packages limited themselves to a single-letter namespace
@@ -452,10 +453,26 @@ macro packages limited themselves to a single-letter 
namespace
 .IR mn ,
 etc.).
 .
-It is not known for certain what the \(lqe\(rq in \(lqme\(rq stands for,
-but one can infer a derivation from the first initial of Eric P.\&
-Allman (then of the University of California), who wrote the original
-technical papers documenting the package.
+.\" 'When I started writing the -me macros it began as something in my
+.\" private tree (I don't remember what I called it).  Then some other
+.\" folks on the INGRES project wanted to use it, but our system admin
+.\" at the time didn't want to dicker with the system namespace at the
+.\" behest of a mere undergraduate, so he didn't like anything that was
+.\" actually descriptive lest people think it was "official".  He
+.\" finally consented to "-meric" (which I always hated), since it was
+.\" obviously non-official.  By the time my macros became popular around
+.\" Berkeley it got shortened to "-me", much to my relief.
+.\"
+.\" Of course, if AT&T had been willing to let Berkeley have -ms then
+.\" most likely -me would never have happened at all.  Without a macro
+.\" package, nroff/troff is basically unusable; -me stepped into the
+.\" vacuum.' -- Eric Allman
+.\"
+.\" https://minnie.tuhs.org//pipermail/tuhs/2018-November/015412.html
+.
+The \(lqe\(rq in \(lqme\(rq stands for \(lqEric P.\& Allman\(rq,
+who wrote the macro package and the original technical papers
+documenting it while an undergraduate at the University of California.
 .
 .
 .\" ====================================================================