Hi Branden,
thank you for your illuminating answer. I was indeed afraid I missed a
critical detail when proposing the rewording!
Suggestion withdrawn.
Best, Oliver.
On 07/05/2025 21:03, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Hi Oliver,
At 2025-05-07T20:50:22+0200, Oliver Corff via GNU roff typesetting
system discussion wrote:
I just read the explanation of "\c" (line continuation) in groff(7).
The manual page says: "The \c escape sequence continues an output
line. Nothing on the input line after it is formatted."
While the wording is clear enough, may I suggest an alternative
wording?
"The \c escape sequence continues an output line. Trailing characters
are silently discarded and treated as comment text, equal to \".
The problem with that recasting is that it is inaccurate.
Exhibit:
$ cat /tmp/oliver.groff
\R'a 1'
.\" \R'b 2'
foo\c\R'c 3'
.pnr a b c
$ ./build/test-groff -z /tmp/oliver.groff
a 1 +0 0
c 3 +0 0
(I'm showing off new features of the `pnr` request in groff Git, but the
essential facts about the register values remain the same.)
$ cat /tmp/oliver2.groff
\R'a 1'
.\" \R'b 2'
foo\c\R'c 3'
.tm a=\na, b=\nb, c=\nc
$ ~/groff-1.22.3/bin/groff -z /tmp/oliver2.groff
a=1, b=0, c=3
In summary, "nothing is formatted" is not equivalent to "nothing is
interpreted".
Regards,
Branden
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