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Re: [Groff] nop request
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] nop request |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Sep 2000 03:01:49 +0200 (CEST) |
> > > I'm not proposing disallowing it. I'm saying that people that
> > > know enough to do this can probably cope with tmac.trace
> > > assuming it is still backslash.
> >
> > Sorry, I don't understand what you want to say. tmac.trace will
> > fail if the backslash character (for whatever reasons) is not the
> > escape character. And there is no way to fix that without
> > additional commands.
>
> Yes, but a knowledgable user who's changing escape character will
> also be capable of finding some way of using tmac.trace or a
> modified copy of it.
Again: tmac.trace will *never* work without an additional command if
the escape character is disabled! A `knowledgable user' would write a
bug report to the groff team, requesting a command so that tmac.trace
works in this situation also.
But maybe I'm misunderstanding you and you want to say something
different.
> > I'll improve the documentation of mdoc also...
>
> Never sufficiently.
:-) I fully agree.
Werner
- Re: [Groff] nop request, (continued)
- Re: [Groff] nop request, Werner LEMBERG, 2000/09/09
- Re: [Groff] nop request, Ralph Corderoy, 2000/09/12
- Re: [Groff] nop request, Werner LEMBERG, 2000/09/12
- Re: [Groff] nop request, Ralph Corderoy, 2000/09/15
- Re: [Groff] nop request, Werner LEMBERG, 2000/09/18
- Re: [Groff] nop request, Ralph Corderoy, 2000/09/18
- Re: [Groff] nop request, Werner LEMBERG, 2000/09/18
- Re: [Groff] nop request, Ralph Corderoy, 2000/09/20
- Re: [Groff] nop request, Werner LEMBERG, 2000/09/21
- Re: [Groff] nop request, Ralph Corderoy, 2000/09/21
- Re: [Groff] nop request,
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