tech-userlevel archive   Re: groff/-mandoc replacement (OT)  >>
In particular, to someone reading the source, .Pp meaning "I
don't >> want a new paragraph but I want a blank line" is
indistinguishable >> from .Pp meaning "I want a new paragraph".
> You could do that by using .Lp, which is supposed to describe
the > former, even though they are currently aliases.  That
sounds perfect for my purposes, and it works in my tests.  I
might still want a force blank line, like my .bL, for something,
but offhand I can't think what (well, can't think what except
for cases that involve abusing -mdoc for purposes it's not
intended for, which is not a use case I think NetBSD should care
about).  This is great.  I'll be getting rid of .bL in my
writing, replacing it with .Lp - doing an automated sweep to
catch most cases, and fixing others up as I notice them.  on the
semantic difference mentioned in the double-quote above.  /~\
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