> |Yes. But generally it can be expected that spaces between \
> |. and a macro name doesn't matter.
>
> I agree with you here.
Just in case it hasn't been mentioned before: At least for the `.so'
request, there is a big difference between
.so
and
. so
The former gets preprocessed with `soelim', while the latter is only
recognized by `troff'. In other words, this difference provides a
means to suppress file inclusion even if `soelim' is used.
Admittedly, this mechanism doesn't make much sense with other
preprocessors in general, but I think it's not a bad idea to stay with
this scheme for orthogonality:
.XXX
can be handled by a preprocessor, while
.<whitespace>XXX
is something only `troff' should process.
Werner
