Re: [Groff] Side coments

[Miklos Somogyi]

Werner,

Thank you for the mild rebuke, but info.groff is not exactly my friend.

We are talking about a silly bug that could be fixed in a few minutes.  
Much more work is to document it, to circumvent it, writing e-mails
back-n-forth about it. The idea that whilst I am working on something,  
I need to be interrupted with a tour to info.groff
about trailing spaces and tabs does not appeal to me.

But I accept that for you "legacy" is the name of the game, and that  
GNU heaven is happy with the status quo, integer
arithmetic & all things like that included. I just stated my opinion,  
I apologize if I offended you.

Miklos


On 14/11/2009, at 00:51 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > This is a rather inelegant solution but it works.
> >
> > Interesting thing:
> >
> > .so file\"                  \" does not work (utter chaos)
>
> ???  This works just fine.  Are you perhaps missing a final newline?
>
> > .so file <tabs>       \" does not work
>
> This is for compatibility with legacy troff; this limitation was there
> from the beginning and is well-documented.
>
> > PS I did not know that I can ignore " at the start of the string
>
> This is documented too.  `info groff' is your friend...
>
>
>    Werner