> |I protest against this bullshit and use long macro names. So the
> |weak commercial roff programs should see where they are. Forget
> |about them.
>
> Wow! Are you willing to overcome one restriction all roffs afaik have
> and that makes me write terrible crap like
>
> .ds S:LIST_BULLET_ITEM_EMBED \
>
> \\*[S:LIST_ITEM_DESC\\n[S:#LIST_LVL]]\\h'|\\n[S:#LIST_SEP\\n[S:#LIST_LVL]]u'\
> \\h'-\\w' 'u'
>
> i.e., let me write \*[ITEM] even if that was a macro not a string.
> (Or has something adorable happened since then.)
I don't understand your (probably sarcastic?) comment. That \*[ITEM]
can call either a macro or a string is a feature which can be useful
sometimes.
Werner
