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Article #557Re: extending (di)troff
From: Col. G. L. Sicherman
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1985 16:35
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1985 16:35
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> > Two-character names must go! But we don't want to break anything. How
> > about this:
> >
> > x one-character name
> > \(xy two-character name
> > \( xyzabc) n-character name
>
> Better: \[xyzabc]. \[ is not used anywhere, unless somebody has done
> some really strange things to troff lately.
I thought of that, but it won't work for strings. \*[ is used
by refer(1). As far as I know, the space convention is the only
one that won't break strings, number registers, and fonts. (We can
use something prettier if we allow some breakage.)
--
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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