Re: [Groff] Odd problem escaping `.'

[Joerg van den Hoff]

Keith Marshall wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 May 2006 5:47 pm, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> > Thank you for the explanation. This is great. "\*[SN]" works.
> >
> > Note that \*[SN_DOT] does not appear to work!
>
> Sorry, my mistake.  That should have been \*[SN-DOT], and \*[SN-NO-DOT] 
> for the case without the terminal dot; (IIRC, these two first appeared in 
> groff-1.19.1 -- it was I who added them -- so they won't be supported in 
> any earlier version).

sorry to interfere, but \*[SN-DOT], \*[SN-NO-DOT] seem not be there in 
groff 1.19.1 (which is what I'm running on my Mac), at least they don't 
work and are not present in s.tmac. did they occur only _after_ 1.19.1 
or what am I missing?
> > But \*[SN] seems to do the trick.
> >
> > Is there a document that covers these escapes? I can't find anything in
> > groff(7) or in info groff.
>
> `man groff_ms', or the ms section under `Macro Packages' in the info 
> manual, for the ms specific stuff.  `man 7 groff', (`man -s 7 groff' on 
> SunOS, or other systems requiring that syntax), does list \& under 
> `Single Character Escapes'; its use is more fully discussed in the 
> `Ligatures and Kerning' section of the info manual, (found via the 
> `Escape Index', from the top node).
>
> Regards,
> Keith.
>
>
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