Re: [Groff] meaning of \[or] glyph

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Werner,

> What's the exact meaning of the \[or] glyph?
> 
> I think it is the same as `|', indicating a bitwise OR operation in C
> code.  It is used to avoid syntactical side effects of `|' which also
> servers as an absolute position indicator.
> 
> Is my interpretation correct?

I don't know.  But 7th Ed. version of troff has \(or with a width of 9
in the special font, ftS.c, but has `|' in ASCII 124's, commented `|',
position in most other font files, e.g. ftR.c, with a width of 2.


Ralph.