Subject: Re: Referring to movies in mdoc
To: Danny Thomas <D.Thomas@vthrc.uq.edu.au>
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/21/2000 18:30:11 
> I know mdoc.samples(7) says macro names are two-characters, but there is
> already one three character name, Bsx (albeit amongst the 13 undocumented
> macros).

Three-character macros break some non-groff *roffs. So having them in
NetBSD's mdoc macros make it harder to read NetBSD man pages on other
systems.

-- Dan