Re: [Docutils-develop] [docutils:feature-requests] Re: #72 rst2man: Show reference targets

[Dmitry S. <mi...@gm...>]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 10:41:03AM -0000, Guenter Milde via Docutils-develop wrote:
> On 2023-08-09, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 07:58:28AM -0000, Guenter Milde via Docutils-develop wrote:
> 
> >> > Another possibility would be using the `.UR` / `.UE` macros to produce
> >> > hyperlinks. They are described in groff_man(7) man page.
> ...
> >> How would this be handled by other (t)roff converters?
> 
> > What other implementations do we want to support?
> 
> I remember discussions about the BSD versions but don't remember the outcome.
> Engelbert is our specialist for the man writer.

FreeBSD's and OpenBSD's man(7) mention the .UR / .UE macros:

     UR	  Begin	a uniform resource identifier block.  This is a	non-standard
          GNU extension.  It has the following syntax:

                .UR uri
                link description to be shown
                .UE

Although, they also say "Use the mdoc(7) language, instead", and mdoc(7) does
not mention these macros.

The same for .EX / .EE which we started using recently.

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Dmitry Shachnev