[bug #58682] -me macros: length of footnote separator is not as documented

[Dave]

URL:
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Summary: -me macros: length of footnote separator is not as
documented
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: barx
Submitted on: Tue 30 Jun 2020 08:02:11 AM CDT
Category: Macro - others
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Documentation
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None

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Details:

doc/meref.me says of macro .$s: "Currently it draws a 1.5i line."

This would be news to tmac/e.tmac-u, where the macro in its entirety is:


.de $s \" $$$ footnote separator
\l'2i'
..


This discrepancy has existed for the entirety of the git history of these
files (i.e., since commit 351da0dc
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=351da0dc> in June
1991), so it's hard to say whether 1.5i or 2i is canonically correct.
doc/meintro.me does not document .$s at all.




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[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #58682 (project groff):

Category: Macro - others => Macro - me


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