Re: About groff and dformat

[Dave Kemper]

On 8/17/22, Riza Dindir <riza.dindir@gmail.com> wrote:
> When you use chem, you can not have
> the # character in the dformat or other preprocessor blocks, since the
> chem macro package does take # as a comment and erases all the
> characters to the end of the line.

For anyone else who's run into trouble with this, Riza has filed
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62909 to try to make chem less
aggressive.

> Or will the control sequence \N'35' always be mapped to the character #?

That's relatively safe, but groff also provides the escape sequence
\[sh] for that character.