Re: [Groff] inconsistency between .R and \*R in man.tmac

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:44:33PM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Bernd,
> > Maybe the documentation of .R should just removed from groff_man(7).
> > That's not too great a loss because the funtionality of .R can be
> > achieved by calling .RI with a single argument:
> > 
> > .RI "This is all in roman font."
> 
> We can't change all the existing man pages though, or am I missing the
> point?
> 
>     % g '^\.R ' mkisofs.8 
>     .R \-magic

That doesn't format correctly at the moment anyway:

.TP
.B \-hfs
Create an ISO9660/HFS hybrid CD. This option should be used in
conjunction
with the
.BR \-map ,
.R \-magic
and/or the various
.I double dash
options given below.

       -hfs   Create an ISO9660/HFS hybrid CD. This option should
              be used in conjunction with the -map,  ?and/or  the
              various double dash options given below.

(There's a 'registered' sign before the "and/or", in case that doesn't
transmit properly.)

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Colin Watson                                  address@hidden