"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> writes:
> These are all correct statements. > There are two major points to make here. > 1. Request invocations are not macro calls. So all that stuff about > double quotes we were talking about doesn't apply here. :( > Sorry about that. That was a language design decision made > literally before I was born. > 2. `ds` and related requests (like `as`) are unusual even among > requests in that they treat the entire remainder of the input line > as a single argument. >> (I'm not sure where this all might be documented.) > Would it surprise you to learn that I've rewritten parts of groff's > Texinfo manual to discuss these matters in detail? ;-) Ah, excellent, thank you. Pod::Man 5.01 will fix some latent bugs in this area (mostly only relevant if people configure unusual quote characters for C<> text). -- Russ Allbery (ea...@eyrie.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
