Re: [Groff] Bugs in mm, accents, multi-line macros and font glyp

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > When using multi-line macros such as .WA/.WE and .IA/.IE, the
> > acent macros do not work, while using high bit latin1 codes
> > does. I am sure this happens in other macros as well.  See the
> > attached example files.
> 
> I am not sure why this does not work. However, it is not just the
> "accent macros" which do not work: the whole string sequence "\*:"
> etc is output literally in your PDF file, i.e. "\*" is not being
> interpreted as the lead-in for a defined string reference. This must
> have something to do with the definition of .WA etc., which I have
> not had time to investigate to the point of finding out why it
> happens.

The escape character is switched off in both .WA and .IA -- only real
8bit characters will work.  I don't know the reason.  Jörg?


    Werner