This is an interesting question. It seems that this is a generic
limitation even present with AT&T. Can someone confirm and/or
comment?
Werner
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The tbl preprocessor makes extensive use of the # character, including
creation of a macro named T#. When instructed to do so, the eqn
preprocessor subsequently picks these up as delimiters, and then
complains about the contents, as well as creating mangled things to
pass on to groff. Under some circumstances, tbl may use other special
characters in names as well. All of $, % and @ appear to be safe
delimiters when placing equations in a table.
On Oct 9, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Denis M. Wilson wrote:
Bug report sent as attachment of Linux ar (archive) file.
Sincerely, Denis M. Wilson
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tbl-bug.rep/ 1255093984 500 100 100644 339 `
Groff Bug Report
GROFF VERSION: 1.20.1
MACHINE: Dell inspiron desktop
OS: Ubuntu 8.04
COMPILER: g++ 4.2.4
INPUT FILES: tbl-bug.n
COMMAND LINE: groff -te tbl-bug.n
DESCRIPTION OF INCORRECT BEHAVIOUR:
Many error and warning messages and incorrect output. The problem
goes away
when the eqn delim characters ## are changed to $$.
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START
.EQ
delim ##
.EN
.TS
l.
#a#
.TE
FINISH
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