(now with some local vim macros fixed to stop accidentally corrupting
the To: lines of some of my outgoing emails ...)

On Sat, Nov 02, 2024 at 08:09:29PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:

At 2024-11-03T00:47:23+0000, Colin Watson wrote:

quoted

and the fact that the NAME section has both semantic and
presentational meaning means that like it or not the parser needs to
be aware of this.)

Even if mandb(8) doesn't run groff to extract the summary descriptions/
apropos lines, I think this feature might be useful to you for
coverage/regression testing.  Presumably, for valid inputs, groff and
mandb(8) should reach similar conclusions about how the text of a "Name"
section is to be formatted.

Yes, that's a good point and I agree with that.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson@debian.org]