Re: [Groff] release ready

[Deri James]

On Sun 12 Oct 2014 13:43:28 Axel Kielhorn wrote:
> While the grops man page says:
> 
>       fields may be separated by tabs or spaces;
> 
> This is slightly inconsistent.
> (Of course you can argue that these are different programs 
> and expecting them to use the same syntax is naïve. I wouldn't disagree.)
> 
> > Deri can certainly give more details why spaces are not allowed,
> > contrary to grops.
> 
> Axel

The reason is because the gropdf download file can include directory/filenames 
which 
may include spaces (this is especially true for windows installation). So it 
does not 
make a good choice as a field separator.

Cheers 

Deri