Re: [Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > Furthermore, there is still this:
> > 
> > Troff is limited as a macro language, and has difficulty when
> > presented with a string containing a member of the mathematical,
> > logical or quotation set:
> > 
> >     {+,-,/,*,%,<,>,<=,>=,=,==,&,`,',"}
> > 
> > "...and has difficulty when presented with...". When? There is no
> > indication when. I should escape all of them? What about "++"?
> > 
> I don't believe there's such a difficulty with -mdocNG.
> Well, certain characters need escaping, like `,', and
> printing `"' is still tricky.  But others should ok.

This stuff also deserves reformulation to be up to date...


    Werner