Re: [Groff] a .text macro

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Some months ago, there was a discussion on the renaming of `.nop'
> into `.text'.  This would not be justified because an argument
> starting with a dot/apostroph will be executed as a macro.
>
> To define a real text macro there must be a way to provide a
> syntactical "nothing".  Some escapes produce nothing in the output
> because they define additional semantical elements.  How about the
> following?
>
> .de text
> .  nop \{\}\$*
> ..
>
> Is this clean?

It's not clear to me what you want to do here.  Please give an
example why you need that.


    Werner