[bug #59825] [ms] implement SG macro

[G. Branden Robinson]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59825>

                 Summary: [ms] implement SG macro
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: gbranden
            Submitted on: Tue 05 Jan 2021 03:01:27 AM UTC
                Category: Macro - ms
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: New feature
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: gbranden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Lesk 1978-11-13 documents an SG "command" (macro).  Its description is short.

"Signature line.  You can obtain a signature line by placing the command .SG
in the document.  The authors' names will be output in place of the .SG line. 
An argument to .SG is used as a typing identification line, and placed after
the signatures.  The .SG command is ignored in released paper format."

("Released paper format" means that .RP was used.)

I may have overlooked it, but I don't think I see a specimen of .SG in the
rendered examples in Lesk's paper (there is a _source_ example).  Thus, what
exactly should be rendered is somewhat open to interpretation.

I also don't know what Lesk means by a "typing identification line".  My guess
is that one application has to do with the old secretarial practice of
"(AB:cd)" or however that went.





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