Re: 03/20: doc/groff.texi.in: Revise "Traps" section.

Dave Kemper <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.groff.general
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On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 10:39 AM G. Branden Robinson
<[email protected]> wrote:
>     * Drop footnote; the man(7) and mdoc(7) packages now use the stated
>       technique.

I don't see why these macros packages using the technique warrants
de-documenting it in the manual.  A reader looking for a way to
accomplish an nroff task should expect to find info about it in the
manual, rather than also being expected to trawl macro packages to
find existing implementations of that task.  The excised footnote was
light on details, but it did point readers to where they could learn
more.  Now only the .em method is mentioned, and it's not always the
most suitable.
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