Re: [Groff] problem with current snapshot

[Joerg van den Hoff]

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