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can't overstrike \0
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Doug McIlroy |
Subject: |
can't overstrike \0 |
Date: |
Wed, 6 May 2009 22:40:15 -0400 |
The construct
\o'\0.'
draws the diagnostic
<standard input>:1: normal or special character expected (got a node)
in groff 1.20.1. Apparently \0 is not treated as a special character,
as it was in original troff.
Experiment shows that \o' .' fails the same way, which is defensible
because space doesn't have a definite width in all contexts. Not so
for \0, which has the width of a digit.
(I encountered this in resurrecting a document from 1986; everything
else worked.)
- can't overstrike \0,
Doug McIlroy <=