Re: [Groff] diffmk for groff needs a new name

[Meg McRoberts]

Yes, and if someone does "apropos diffmk" they should find it.
gdiffmk meets that criterion.

meg

--- Jorgen Grahn <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon Nov 22 10:12:00 2004, address@hidden wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > I'm working with Werner to contribute a diffmk-like command to the groff 
> > set,
> > and he and I agree that it is probably a good idea to give it a new name 
> > since
> > there other things that call themselves  diffmk  that are incompabable in 
> > one
> > why or another.  For example the  diffmk  in found in sourceforge.net is for
> > XML, and the one which is part of AIX has a very different option model.
> > 
> > So the question to the group is, what should a diffmk for the groff package 
> > be
> > called?  Considered so-far:
> >     gdiffmk         implies GNU, but does not point to roff
> 
> My choice. Lots of traditional roff tools have non-obvious names: refer,
> pic, tbl, ... Also, I guess most people looking for this tool will do so
> because they are looking for a port of diffmk.
> 
> /Jörgen
> 
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