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[Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages
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jmc |
Subject: |
[Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages |
Date: |
Fri, 4 Jul 2003 13:16:42 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
Hi,
I've been having a look at the new mdoc stuff in groff, and I'm really
confused about when punctuation needs to be escaped, and when not.
I take it that it's *not* necessary in the body of text, only within
macros? Is it necessary within a display (.Bd)?
Also take the following examples:
.Pa .file
.Pa /
.Pa /root
.Dq !?foo?^ !$
^lb^lib
?foo?
.Ic !la
I have no idea which parts of these macros need escaping, and which
don't. I would really appreciate it if someone could escape these
properly for me, as a basis to work from. (You can probably tell I'm
working on a shell page.)
One more point: is there a difference between "\-1" and "\&-1"? Are
these both correct ways to represent minus, or is it possible they could
format differently?
groff_mdoc(7) is not very helpful about what to do here, and in most
cases I detect no difference in output.
Thanks,
jmc.
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- [Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages,
jmc <=
- Re: [Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages, Werner LEMBERG, 2003/07/05
- Re: [Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages, Ruslan Ermilov, 2003/07/05
- Re: [Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages, Werner LEMBERG, 2003/07/05
- Re: [Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages, Ruslan Ermilov, 2003/07/05
- Re: [Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages, Ruslan Ermilov, 2003/07/05