> |This has worked for ages already in Unix troff (because macros and > |strings share the same namespace), and my guess is in groff as > |well. It might just not have been documented. > > It definitely wasn't, [...]
Macros called with \* is indeed nothing new. However, having
arguments like
\*[foo arg1 arg2 ...]
is what I've added some years ago.
Werner
