Re: [Groff] Bugs in mm, accents, multi-line macros and font glyphs

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > Not \[<digraph>] but \[<xxx>] with <xxx> a string of any length.
> Yes, but I was referring to the digraphs used in postscript metrics
> files, e.g.:
> 
> ha  606,740 2   0000    -- asciicircum
> ti  606,319 0   0001    -- asciitilde
> vS  498,927,13  2   0002    -- Scaron
> vZ  480,927 2   0003    -- Zcaron
> vs  388,764,13  2   0004    -- scaron
> vz  425,764 2   0005    -- zcaron

It is just a historic accidence that only digraphs are used.  groff
font symbols can be of any length.

> I guess the expected way to call these 8bit chars is \(<digraph>,
> say \(vS, but \[vS] works equally well; perhaps this is an
> unexpected side-effect?

It is an intentional side-effect :-) I always use \[vS] to have
balanced delimiters.


    Werner