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[bug #61022] [ms]: Documention neglects to mention FP macro
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Keith Marshall |
Subject: |
[bug #61022] [ms]: Documention neglects to mention FP macro |
Date: |
Sat, 7 Aug 2021 17:31:23 -0400 (EDT) |
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Summary: [ms]: Documention neglects to mention FP macro
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: keithmarshall
Submitted on: Sat 07 Aug 2021 09:31:22 PM UTC
Category: Macro - ms
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Documentation
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Details:
Internally, groff's s.tmac defines a macro called "FP", and uses it to control
the printing of footnotes. At the point of definition, I see:
.\" This can be redefined. It gets a second argument of 'no' if the
.\" first argument was supplied by the user, rather than automatically.
.de FP
...
To me, this suggests that the intention is to provide a hook, (albeit
inconsistent with other ms implementations — e.g. Plan-9's ms manpage
documents an FP macro associated with font positions), whereby the user may
choose to modify the appearance of footnotes, yet the documentation (neither
manpage, nor info) has absolutely no mention of it.
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