2 Jul
2018
2 Jul
'18
5:20 a.m.
On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 10:23:57PM -0400, Doug McIlroy wrote:
I edited the v7 manual and I believe I proofread every
man page. How
could I have overlooked the misbehavior of the .li request*, which was
even then not in the reference manual's list of n/troff requests?
doug
* .li causes the next line to be read literally, even if it begins
with a dot.
Slightly Unix related, .li is in the version of roff which I wrote in
a C-like language for the PDP-7 version of Unix:
https://github.com/DoctorWkt/h-compiler/blob/master/roff/wktroff.c
https://github.com/DoctorWkt/h-compiler/blob/master/roff/roff_manual
https://github.com/DoctorWkt/h-compiler
Cheers, Warren