27 Oct
2018
27 Oct
'18
6:28 p.m.
On 27/10/18, Doug McIlroy wrote:
I didn't mean the macros. They are not problematic at all.
It's the idea how much a point is compared to an inch that has
changed over time i think.
aap
Now it could
be that v7 troff is perfectly capable of generating the
manual just like older troff would have.
On taking over editorship for v7, I added some macros to the -man
package. I don't specifically recall making any incompatible
changes. If there were any, they'd most likely show up in
the title and synopsis and should be fixable by a minor tweak
to -man. I'm quite confident that there would be no problems
with troff proper.