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

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