Re: [Groff] Critique this bold-italic private macro for man pages

[John Gardner]

Is there literally no way to identify when a modern (non-GNU) troff is
being used?

On 4 May 2017 at 05:46, Carsten Kunze <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Carsten Kunze <address@hidden> hat am 3. Mai 2017 um 21:37
> geschrieben:
> >
> > > E.g., ncurses uses these conditionals in many of its pages:
> > >
> > > .ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq
> > > .el       .ds `` ``
> > > .ie \n(.g .ds '' \(rq
> > > .el       .ds '' ''
>
> I overlooked the word ncurses...
>
> Ok, there had been days when this distinction did made sense.  But it
> should not be used in new code anymore...
>
> Carsten
>
>