Re: [groff] [UTROFF] references, summary, index

[Pierre-Jean]

Hello James and Ralph,

Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:

> > > It may be better to use `.write', if other troffs have that, rather
> > > than allow the local echo(1) to perhaps interpret sum-list's
> > > content?
> ...
> >     sy printf '%s\n' '\\*[sum-list]' | sed -e "s/@@@/\\\\n./g" 
> >
> > would eliminate that issue. 
> 
> But still leave open the original problem.  :-)
> 
>     $ cat sy.tr
>     .ds sum-list foo';'date
>     .sy exec >&2; printf '%s\\n' '\*[sum-list]' | od -c
>     $ 
>     $ nroff -U <sy.tr
>     foo
>     0000000   W   e   d           6       D   e   c       1   4   :   4   7
>     0000020   :   3   1       G   M   T       2   0   1   7  \n
>     0000035
>     $

That's a bit annoying: I did not use .write because it is not
implemented in neatroff... But I'm underdestanding I should better use
it, and reserve the possible issue of .sy to neatroff only.

Thank you,
Pierre-Jean.