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Re: [Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages
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jmc |
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Re: [Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages |
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Sat, 5 Jul 2003 10:10:23 +0200 |
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On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:08:15PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> > I take it that it's *not* necessary in the body of text, only within
> > macros?
>
> You don't have to protect them within macros.
>
OK, now I'm confused. I don't have to escape punctuation in macros?
.Ic ?
does *not* mark up.
> > groff_mdoc(7) is not very helpful about what to do here, and in most
> > cases I detect no difference in output.
>
> You should read the info pages of groff which have a complete
> reference of troff(1). Another helpful page is groff_char(7).
>
>
> Werner
I'll have a look at these.
Thanks for the pointers,
jmc.
--
Surprising Auld Nick's a good start.
- [Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages, jmc, 2003/07/04
- Re: [Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages, Werner LEMBERG, 2003/07/05
- Re: [Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages,
jmc <=
- Re: [Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages, Ruslan Ermilov, 2003/07/05
- Re: [Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages, Werner LEMBERG, 2003/07/05
- Re: [Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages, Ruslan Ermilov, 2003/07/05
- Re: [Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages, Ruslan Ermilov, 2003/07/05
- Re: [Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages, Werner LEMBERG, 2003/07/06
- Re: [Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages, jmc, 2003/07/05