Hi Clarke, thanks for your reply, but this is in fact not knew to me. If you read [1] you'll see that the problem is about passing a single string to a macro if that string contains spaces.
On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 09:44:53AM -0600, Clarke Echols wrote: > On 09/01/2012 09:12 AM, Cedric Sodhi wrote: > > Hello, I wanted to bring up a problem that I had mentioned a while ago > > [1] but to which I've found not satisfactory solution, whatsoever, yet. > > How does Escaping actually work in Groff? Is what I said in [1] true and > > there is in fact no consistent method and rather, quotes cannot be > > escaped like one would do in C? I refer you to [1] in which I described > > my problem. Thank you in advance. > > > > [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2012-04/msg00015.html > > > > > > I went to Google and searched "groff escape quotes", and found the > answer in the groff(7) man page: > > The escaped double quote \" introduces a comment. Otherwise, it is not > special. Groff provides a printable representation with the \(dq escape > sequence. > > > Clarke
