Re: [Groff] Treatment of annotation paragraphs in refer

[Werner LEMBERG]

> However, refer turns the annotation text into one long string
> defined using the .ds command and all troff commands are lost; e.g.,
> 
> %X First paragraph of annnotation.
> .LP 
> Second paragraph of annotation.
> 
> Is translated by refer into:
> 
> .ds [X First paragraph of annnotation. .LP Second paragraph of annotation.

Maybe the following macro helps:

  .de XX
  .  while \\n[.$] \{\
  .    nop \\$1
  .    shift
  .  \}
  ..

For example, the line

  .XX \*([X

gets expanded as

  First
  paragraph
  of
  annotation.
  .LP
  Second
  paragraph
  of annotation.

I'm not a user of refer, so I can't give more specific help.


    Werner