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Article #6460Re: Troff Macro Programming A: Part 1 [repost]
From: Michael Morrell
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1989 01:02
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1989 01:02
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/ hpsal2:comp.text / scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman) / 12:24 pm May 30, 1989 /
Just as a suggestion, one of the things I hacked into ditroff (many
years ago) was to accept "legal" \s but added the ability to do a \s(xx
where the xx can be any point size.
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This feature is present in ELAN's Eroff. I don't know why the original troff
decided to make \s the exception in not requiring the "(" when giving a 2
digit argument.
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