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[groff] 14/122: pic(1): Remove old kludge for BSD man macros.


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [groff] 14/122: pic(1): Remove old kludge for BSD man macros.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 02:59:06 -0500 (EST)

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit ee972e2d65a488400dc6d52a68132c40d4588e03
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sat Nov 7 20:38:01 2020 +1100

    pic(1): Remove old kludge for BSD man macros.
    
    Remove workaround for BSD macros from 1992.  Use the groff double-quote
    special character escape instead of playing tricks with .tr and the
    terminal sigma special character escape.
---
 src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man b/src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man
index d052c42..51ae1ec 100644
--- a/src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man
+++ b/src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man
@@ -46,10 +46,6 @@
 .ie \n(.g .ds ic \/
 .el       .ds ic \^
 .
-.\" The BSD man macros can't handle " in arguments to font change
-.\" macros, so use \(ts instead of ".
-.tr \(ts"\""
-.
 .
 .\" ====================================================================
 .SH Synopsis
@@ -634,7 +630,7 @@ with an argument of
 If
 .I text
 is omitted a format string of
-.B "\(ts%g\(ts"
+.B \[dq]%g\[dq]
 is used.
 .
 Attributes can be specified in the same way as for a normal text
@@ -961,7 +957,7 @@ have a value of 0.
 In (almost all) places where a quoted text string can be used,
 an expression of the form
 .IP
-.BI sprintf(\(ts format \(ts,\  arg ,\fR.\|.\|.\fB)
+.BI sprintf(\[dq] format \[dq],\  arg ,\fR.\|.\|.\fB)
 .LP
 can also be used;
 this will produce the arguments formatted according to



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