Re: [Groff] Choosing a portability target

[Eric S. Raymond]

walter harms <address@hidden>:
> i am a big fan of tables (for a different reason) but we can not change that
> if the (man page) maintainers do not enforce it. someone should contact them
> and perhaps they have some nice additional ideas that should be incorporated.

There's no one set of maintainers that can "enforce" such a convention.
Most man pages belong to individual progress.  
 
> It would be a nice step forward to add stuff like pic into man pages aka
> 'a picture says more that 1000 words' (think of flow charts)

In fact, on systems running groff there's no problem with this.
The constraint has always been that pic won't render well (or, 
usually, at all) in a terminal emulator, so people don't use it.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>