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Re: [Nmh-workers] man page change review

2012-10-16 21:53:29
I just pushed a new nmh.7 man page.  Along with Paul's content changes,
it includes the troff source changes I am planning to make across the
board. Specifically, I'm getting rid of the .RS/.RE/.fc/.ta hackery and
replacing it with .TP tagged paragraphs.  These changes also let me
replace some of the embedded \fXasdf\fY usage with the standard font
change macros (.B, .I, .IR, etc), which might help the mandoc folks.

I'm not a troff/man guru by any means ... so I was wondering: why
these changes?  I'm not complaining about them, it's more for my
own understanding.  Example: I understand that .B and \fB do the
same thing, but why is the former preferred?

--Ken

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