Re: [Groff] Macro "itc" is needed to make escape "\c" useful

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2017-05-02T18:34:50+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> But you are right that i should probably adjust the in-line macros
> (that is, .B, .I, .SM, .SB) as well, even though for them, the
> damage is minor, wrong font at the worst - and even that is unlikely
> to happen in practice, because why would anybody do something like
> 
> .B
> three \c
> bold \c
> words
> and then back to the default font.
> 
> rather than simply
> 
> .B three bold words
> and then back to the default font.
> 
> ?

Or even

.B
three bold words

> I really hope that in manual pages, nobody does stunts like
> 
> .TH TEST 1 2017-05-02
> .SH NAME
> test \- descr
> .SH DESCRIPTION
> .B
> three \c
> .gcolor red
> bold \c
> .gcolor
> words
> and then back to the default font.

On my (Debian stretch) system, no one uses .gcolor requests in _any_ man
page--thank God.

find /usr/share/man/man* -type f -and -not -type l | xargs zgrep
'^\.\s*gcolor'

$ find /usr/share/man/man* -type f -and -not -type l \
        | xargs zgrep '^\.\s*gcolor' || echo none
none

Regards,
Branden

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