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bug#31803: Problems in chroot.2, ln.1, test.1, [.1
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Eric S. Raymond |
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bug#31803: Problems in chroot.2, ln.1, test.1, [.1 |
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Wed, 13 Jun 2018 16:24:23 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden>:
> Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > We can cooperate to work around this. One obvious way: If the
> > square-bracket aliases on your page were marked up as the groff
> > escapes \*[lB] and \*[rB] instead of '[' and ']' they would render the
> > same, but I think I could teach my parser to no longer be confused and
> > I wouldn't have to try to patch them out in favor of a wall of text.
>
> Something like that should be fine. However, wouldn't it cause the man page
> to fail with traditional troff, as still shipped and supported on Solaris
> 10? In that case, perhaps we could use [\"[ and ]\"] as special markers
> instead of using \*[lB] and \*[rB]; this should work with bold old troff and
> groff, if I understand the proposal correctly.
I see the problem, but I'm afraid my groff-fu is no strong enough to grok your
proposed solution. Why will those sequences work? What are they doing?
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