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Re: [Groff] surprise, surprise
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Andrew Koenig |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] surprise, surprise |
Date: |
Sun, 26 Aug 2001 12:35:23 -0400 (EDT) |
Ted> I'm aware of this paragraph! However, the above reported behaviour
Ted> (rather non-behaviour") slightly puzzles me (I don't have a "UNIX
Ted> troff" to hand at the moment).
Ted> _Either_ one takes the above paragraph literally, in which case
Ted> the line "\fB.test\fP" does _not_ begin with a "." and so is _not_
Ted> a control line; or else "\fB..." is transparent at the start of a line
Ted> and so the line should be interpreted as ".test" (in a Bold context)
Ted> (as is the case with groff).
The line "\fB.test\fP" does not begin with a "." and so is
not a control line. That is the way Unix troff treats it.
Ted> One possibility is that because ".test" is a four-character name,
Ted> the definition ".de test ..." and/or the invocation ".test" are
Ted> not being recognised as macros. Could someone with "UNIX troff"
Ted> re-try with a two-character name, e.g.
Ted> .de jK
Ted> Hallo!
Ted> ..
Ted> \fB.jK\fP
Wow! It really does interpret .jK as a macro invocation!
That's truly bizarre...
The output is "Hallo!" in bold font.
Under groff, the output appears in roman font.
--
Andrew Koenig, address@hidden, http://www.research.att.com/info/ark
- [Groff] surprise, surprise, Werner LEMBERG, 2001/08/26
- RE: [Groff] surprise, surprise, Ted Harding, 2001/08/26
- Re: [Groff] surprise, surprise, Andrew Koenig, 2001/08/26
- Re: [Groff] surprise, surprise, Ted Harding, 2001/08/26
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- Re: [Groff] surprise, surprise, Ted Harding, 2001/08/26
- Re: [Groff] surprise, surprise, Werner LEMBERG, 2001/08/27
- Re: [Groff] surprise, surprise, Ted Harding, 2001/08/28
- Re: [Groff] surprise, surprise, Werner LEMBERG, 2001/08/27
- Re: [Groff] surprise, surprise, Ralph Corderoy, 2001/08/28
- Re: [Groff] surprise, surprise, Ted Harding, 2001/08/28
- Re: [Groff] surprise, surprise, Ralph Corderoy, 2001/08/28
- Re: [Groff] surprise, surprise, Werner LEMBERG, 2001/08/29
- Re: [Groff] surprise, surprise, Werner LEMBERG, 2001/08/29
- Re: [Groff] surprise, surprise, Clarke Echols, 2001/08/28