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Pop quiz: How do YOU .do?
From: |
G. Branden Robinson |
Subject: |
Pop quiz: How do YOU .do? |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Apr 2020 19:54:24 +1000 |
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How well do you know groff's .do request? Put it to the test!
I found the existing man page documentation much too light and a certain
paragraph in the Texinfo manual confounding.
But I know there are people reading this list who are highly
experienced, or simply more clever than I am.
Pretend you are groff, running without the -C flag, writing to an
nroff device, and you are given the region between the SNIPs below as
input.
What will your output be?
A plain-text hint is attached, as well as the solution, base64-encoded.
---SNIP---
.pl 1v
.de mac1
FOO
..
.de1 mac2
groff
.mac1
..
.de mac3
compatibility
.mac1
..
.de ma
\\$1
..
.cp 1
.do mac1
.do mac2
.do mac3
.do ma \[ti]
---SNIP---
Regards,
Branden
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answer.base64
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- Pop quiz: How do YOU .do?,
G. Branden Robinson <=