Re: [groff] tiny error in grog

[Robert D. Goulding]

On Fri, 24 May 2002, Colin Watson wrote:

> On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:14:05PM -0400, Robert D. Goulding wrote:
> > grog doesn't detect mm files.  This is because of a tiny error at line
> > 102:  the round parentheses around PHISA should be square brackets.
>
> That would be bad; it's PH|SA, not PHISA (pipe rather than capital I),
> and the parentheses mean that either the '.PH' or the '.SA' request
> followed by whitespace causes a document to be detected as mm.
>
> Square brackets would mean that any of the requests '.P', '.H', '.|',
> '.S', or '.A' would indicate mm, which would indeed treat more documents
> as mm but probably also has many more false positives.

<blush> Apologies.  (Though *could* grog be modified to accept .P 1 etc.,
or something similar, as identifying an mm file?)

R.