> It is safe to convert backslashes to slashes only when it is known
> that the literal string is indeed a file name. This condition holds
> for command arguments, but not for groff input text. "Fixing" .lf
> commands is of a piece with the maddening AI of Microsoft Word and
> Open Office, which think that they know what you mean.*
Fortunately, Eli has a lot of experience with such issues.
> If .lf requests get fixed, should not .so requests be fixed too?
`.lf' *itself* stays completely unchanged! Only the programs that
insert `.lf' requests are fixed so that the filename argument contains
no backslashes.
Consequently, there won't be changes to `.so' either.
> To return to my first sentence. It may be reasonable to
> canonicalize file-name command arguments in groff and preprocessors.
As far as we can see, only s|\|/| is necessary.
Werner
