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Re: [Groff] Escaping punctuation marks in troff
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Robert Goulding |
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Re: [Groff] Escaping punctuation marks in troff |
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Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:33:00 -0500 |
On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 02:14 PM, Divya Dhakar wrote:
1. I am not a member of the list. Please let me know how to become a
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2. secondly, I want to parse a 'html' file and convert it to troff
format.
so, i cannot change the characters.
Surely it could be filtered through sed on the way to troff...?
so, the line that i parse is "She said "Hello World!" to me. "
This is suppose the heading of the paragraph so it is preceeded by .ip
Wouldn't you be better using .uh (unnumbered heading)? Like this:
.uh "She said ""Hello World"" to me."
.lp
This is the text of the paragraph.
I'm pretty sure this is what you're after, rather than an indented
paragraph; the argument to .ip is supposed to be small (a bullet,
number, single word etc.).
I followed your advice to doubleline the quote but I get the following
output:
- Testfile :
.ip "She said ""Hello world!:"" to me. "
- command used:
nroff -me testfilename | more
- output i get:
Hello World !" to me " . ti -120u Hello World !"
to me ">=120 she said "Hello World !" to me
Notes:
So, the line does print but i have a lot of garbage value in there.
Did u
get the same output when u tried to run it or am I doing soemthing
wrong!!!
No, I don't get this at all. This is very odd: troff requests are
being passed through to the output uninterpreted. I do recall that a
similar bug existed, for a very short time, in an earlier version of
groff. Which version are you using? BTW, what happens if you ask for
postscript output (groff -me filename > filename.ps)?
Robert.