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Re: Aw: Re: mandoc shortcomings



On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 02:35:01PM +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote:
>
> Hm, wouldn't it be possible for mandoc to call groff/troff/vfsh if it fails
> to
> understand the given man page?

I think so.  And it would be eminently preferable for that to be troff,
not groff, to get the oldest, ugliest pile of C++ crap out of our tree,
but that may take some doing.  And who has the time?

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  Thor Lancelot Simon	                                     tls%panix.com@localhost

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