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Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE |
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Wed, 3 Jan 2007 07:28:23 -0500 |
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Michael(tm) Smith <address@hidden>:
> I think doing that would be an abuse of <blockquote>. I hope
> doclifter isn't currently using <blockquote> that way in other
> places. It's not supposed to be a means to indent things. A
> particular processing application may or or may not render it with
> an indent. It would be a mistake to assume that every processing
> application will indent <blockquote> output.
Sorry, I am in fact abusing <blockquote> to translate .RS/.RE. And
yes, I was aware this was an abuse, but I don't know of any better way
to translate it. Can you offer one?
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>