RE: [Groff] Max of 9 macro parameters.

[Eddie Maddox]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 address@hidden wrote:

> I'm pretty sure this is not a bug. Certainly your source code looks
> wrong.
> 
> First, groff (more precisely gtroff) can definitely take unlimited
> numbers of macros.
> 
> Second, to refer to a macro argument whose number nn or nnn needs more
> than 1 digit (i.e. other than \\$0 ... \\$9) you should use \\S(nn of
> \\$[nnn]. Your html source probably needs this.

My apologies for not checking the docs sooner/better. All this Ted wrote
is in the Groff doc, at "Programming Tutorial", "Writing Macros",
"Parameters", paragraph two, first two lines.

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Eddie Maddox
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