[TUHS] [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Mon Aug 13 16:34:06 AEST 2018


Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> > Why create ms when you have mm?
>
> Well, the real reason is that ms was the very first macro package.
> It has held up spectactularly well, evolving much less than the
> underlying [ntg]roff.
>
> Doug

Or say, rather, the first *general purpose* macro package. The man
macros predate it. :-)

Arnold



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