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Re: mandoc shortcomings



> [...], and this is really not a man page since it uses low level roff
> macros (instead of restricting itself to the -man or -mdoc set).

That's an interesting redefinition of "man page"; historically, they
have never restricted themselves to what nroff -man provides, except
for the simplest - or those which made a point of doing so.

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