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.EM found missing
From: |
Dorai Sitaram |
Subject: |
.EM found missing |
Date: |
Sun, 15 Nov 2020 14:13:38 +0000 (UTC) |
UTP strongly hints that the -ms macros have the end-of-input trap .em pre-set
to a defined macro called .EM, with the implication that if the user wants to
affect end-of-input behavior they can append or prepend to this macro rather
than messing with .em directly. However groff's s.tmac sets its .em value to a
macro of another name (viz., .pg@end-text).
This is probably one place where one can safely bring back compatibility to
earlier times. It is not necessary to give up .pg@end-text: .EM could either
expand to or be an alias to .pg@end-text. I can't think of any modernizing
rationale for groff to give up this convention. FWIW, both Heirloom and
neatroff keep the .EM.
--d
- .EM found missing,
Dorai Sitaram <=