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To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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Subject: Fx and Os macros (was: Re: [yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp:
	 .Fx and .Os macros in groff, FreeBSD])
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Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 16:25:44 +0900
From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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>No need to ignore it; it's easy to implement:
>
>.ie "\\$1"2"	\&\\*(tNFreeBSD\\*(aa 2.0\\$2
>.el		\&\\*(tNFreeBSD\\*(aa \\$1\\$2
>
>>Then, how should Os macro, in doc-common, be fixed?  I am no
>>nroff/groff expert. Does the following snippet look OK?
>
>We can special-case the value 2 here too;
>
>.if "\\$1"FreeBSD" \{\
>.	ie "\\$2"2"	.ds oS FreeBSD 2.0
>.	el		.ds oS FreeBSD \\$2
>.\}
>
>>We should fix these macros in time for 3.1-RELEASE.  Would you do it,
>>or shall I?
>
>Well, I'd like to see if there's anyone who knows why the macros
>were the way they were ("because nobody really knew *roff" is a
>likely answer) and if there's a reason not to make this kind of
>change...

I see wosch, pst, and mpp touched these macros from time to time,
according to cvs logs.  They may know something.

Kazu
yokota@FreeBSD.ORG

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