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Re: [Groff] Divert into string variable
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [Groff] Divert into string variable |
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Sat, 29 Nov 2014 06:21:21 +0100 (CET) |
>> This usage is IMHO not documented in the troff manual § 7.4 or
>> groff manual § 5.25.
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> It's documented in the groff manual in section 5.19; see the
> sentence "Strings, macros, and diversions (and boxes) share the same
> name space" and the following few paragraphs.
... and please look up what `.unformat' does – in the groff info
manual, an example is given in the documentation of the `.ds' request.
> You're right that, because this discussion involves multiple
> objects, it shouldn't be documented under just one of them without
> at least pointers to it in the documentation of the others.
Please open a bug tracker issue and ideally provide patches there...
Werner