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

[Bernd Warken]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:18:44AM +0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> 
> The escape mechanism is being turned off in WA and IA,
> although I have no idea why this should be necessary.
> At least in the example letter it seems to work correctly
> if we comment out the ".eo" lines.  In my opinion it would
> only make sense to turn the escape mechanism off if the
> text will be reinterpreted a second time (instead of
> formatting it directly into a diversion), for example
> by storing the text in a macro (.de instead of .di) and
> later invoking that macro with escapes enabled.
> 
In the design phase of macro development, the .eo/.ec mechanism is
a valuable help for prototyping.  The doubling of backslashes can
then be done in a second step.

Bernd Warken