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Re: [Groff] problem with current snapshot
From: |
Joerg van den Hoff |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] problem with current snapshot |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:46:53 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:05:11AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> > Maybe the real issue is that AT&T troff and its derivatives do not
> > change to copy mode when reading names:
> >
> > .ds xx foo
> > .ds \\f bar
> > \*(\f2xx \n(.f
> >
> > prints "foo 2" with both 7th Edition troff and Heirloom troff. With
> > groff, it prints "bar2xx 1". Consequently, Heirloom troff also does
> > not change its mode when reading the contents of a "\[...]" bracket
> > sequence. And thus, both occurences of "\E" in "\E*[\E*[foo]]" are
> > interpreted as escape characters.
>
> This is now fixed in the CVS -- \E gets expanded in escape names. The
> fix was much simpler than expected. Please test.
it seems not to have made it into the development snapshot dated 19-march-2007
13:08 (I downloaded that right and encounter the same problem as before).
is this to be expected or is something wrong with the update of the snapshot?
joerg
Re: [Groff] problem with current snapshot, Werner LEMBERG, 2007/03/17
- Re: [Groff] problem with current snapshot, Gunnar Ritter, 2007/03/17
- Re: [Groff] problem with current snapshot, Werner LEMBERG, 2007/03/17
- Re: [Groff] problem with current snapshot, Gunnar Ritter, 2007/03/17
- Re: [Groff] problem with current snapshot, Werner LEMBERG, 2007/03/19
- Re: [Groff] problem with current snapshot,
Joerg van den Hoff <=
- Re: [Groff] problem with current snapshot, Werner LEMBERG, 2007/03/19
- Re: [Groff] problem with current snapshot, Gunnar Ritter, 2007/03/19
- Re: [Groff] problem with current snapshot, Joerg van den Hoff, 2007/03/19
- Re: [Groff] problem with current snapshot, Gunnar Ritter, 2007/03/19
Re: [Groff] problem with current snapshot, Joerg van den Hoff, 2007/03/20
Re: [Groff] problem with current snapshot, Larry Kollar, 2007/03/20
Re: [Groff] problem with current snapshot, Joerg van den Hoff, 2007/03/21
Re: [Groff] problem with current snapshot, Werner LEMBERG, 2007/03/21
Re: [Groff] problem with current snapshot, Joerg van den Hoff, 2007/03/22
Re: [Groff] problem with current snapshot, Werner LEMBERG, 2007/03/22