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Article #15nroff garbling
From: utzoohenry
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1982 15:56
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1982 15:56
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A specific form of the line-begins-with-quote problem: if the two characters after the quote are "tr", the rest of the output will be utter trash. The problem is that the quote, of course, makes the line an nroff command, and the tr command is "transliterate": something like ".tr ab" transliterates all a's to b's in the output. Feeding .tr a random argument will cause random translations in the output, resulting in VERY strange-looking text. Laura brought this one in. Fixing the macro package to get around this problem is awkward but may not be impossible; IN PRINCIPLE it is possible to change the character used as nroff's alternate command marker.
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