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Re: [Groff] .IP quoting incompatibility
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [Groff] .IP quoting incompatibility |
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Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:34:34 +0200 (CEST) |
> > Sigh. It's a not a bug in GNU troff, I think.
>
> Well, it's an incompatibility then. It seems to involve argument
> substitution inside quoted strings. Consider the following:
>
> .de XX
> \\$1
> ..
> .de YY
> .XX "\\$1"
> ..
> .YY "$"""""
Aah, I haven't thought of that! Ralph, what does your troff produce?
It seems that this is indeed a bug (more or less) in groff because
arguments always have to be handled with literal textual substitution.
Werner