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In article <16321@smunews.UUCP> leff@.seas.smu.edu (leff) writes:
 > A strange control character is being inserted on character interpolations
 > before a closing \} of an if statement.
 > 
 > nroff inserts an octal 36 (^^) while ditroff inserts a control-Q.
 > 
 > The obvious workaround is to insert a dummy statement just before the \}
 > but I would like to understand what is happening.  Any ideas?
 > 

Other people have explained the way to circumvent this. But nobody
really told what it was. Well, just in case you wanted to know:

What is happening is that .tm does a poor job translating the internal
cookies back to ascii.

What I remember is that 036 is the internal token for the \} for old
troff (and nroff). In the new troff (ditroff) this is 021 (^Q).

	jaap