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Re: [Groff] conditionals
From: |
Ralph Corderoy |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] conditionals |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:18:13 +0100 |
Hi,
Larry Kollar wrote:
> It's defined in groff(7), and in sec. 5.3 of the texinfo doc. Logical
> OR is a colon:
>
> .if \n[EULA]=1:\n[EULA]=3 \{\
>
> It would have been interesting to ask Joe O why a colon instead of a
> pipe here. Anyway, I use constructs like this all the time in my docs.
Perhaps because a | was already being used for `.sp |1i'? Or because |
didn't suggest logical-or yet. troff pre-dates C by quite a while.
Cheers,
Ralph.
Re: [Groff] conditionals, Larry Kollar, 2010/06/01
- Re: [Groff] conditionals,
Ralph Corderoy <=
Re: [Groff] conditionals, Werner LEMBERG, 2010/06/01