Re: [Groff] No white space between . and PS?

[Carsten Kunze]

Mike Bianchi <address@hidden wrote:

> It should be allowed,
> but the evidence is that pic does not see .PS and .PE as macros.

Yes, but this is somehow an imcomplete implementation.  For the user it is a 
macro (or one could see it as a request, does not matter).  For me it was 
unexpected, that it does not work.  I don't see any intention or sense in this 
specific implementation.  I think the one how wrote the lex(1) regex simply 
forgot the [ \t]* between . and PS :-)

It is indeed also the traditional behavior (of the AT&T preprocessors) to not 
allow this white space.  By accident I think.

(Sorry for the lot of mails.  I don't know why they arrive with such a delay.  
And there had been cases where they even did not arrive...)

Carsten