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Date:      Wed, 7 Jul 2004 18:45:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys pathconf.2
Message-ID:  <200407072245.i67MjL8J040145@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 18:38:11 -0400, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> said:

> Not to sound like Ruslan, but:

> .It Li _PC_NO_TRUNC
> Always returns 1.
> .Po Included to support software written for previous editions of
> .Tn POSIX . Pc

> is more mdoc(7) friendly.  :)

Since when?  Just because there is a macro that emits a particular
character does not mean that one should always use the macro rather
than the character.  .Pq/Po/Pc are there for when you need parsed
arguments (e.g., ".Pq Li FOO"), not for insertion into text at
random.  There's a reason why mdoc(7) goes to the lengths it does to
recognize punctuation.

-GAWollman



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