15 May
2018
15 May
'18
8:18 p.m.
Doug McIlroy <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
OK, much thanks.
I like -ms, but if I was going to write a book with nested lists
and so on, I'd use -mm.
Arnold
Wouldn't
the -man macros have predated -ms?
Indeed. My error.
The original -man package was quite weak. It got a major face
lift for v7 and once more at v9 or so. And further man-page
packages are still duking it out today. -ms has lots of rivals,
too, but its continued popularity attests to Mike Lesk's fine
sense of design.
Doug