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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#31803: Problems in chroot.2, ln.1, test.1, [.1 |
Date: | Wed, 13 Jun 2018 09:03:04 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 |
Eric S. Raymond wrote:
We can cooperate to work around this. One obvious way: If the square-bracket aliases on your page were marked up as the groff escapes \*[lB] and \*[rB] instead of '[' and ']' they would render the same, but I think I could teach my parser to no longer be confused and I wouldn't have to try to patch them out in favor of a wall of text.
Something like that should be fine. However, wouldn't it cause the man page to fail with traditional troff, as still shipped and supported on Solaris 10? In that case, perhaps we could use [\"[ and ]\"] as special markers instead of using \*[lB] and \*[rB]; this should work with bold old troff and groff, if I understand the proposal correctly.
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