[minor self-correction] At 2025-08-24T14:05:43-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > You already avoid many of these problems by using font selection > escape sequences instead of font style macros, but this issue is worth > knowing about if `"` characters appear in (sub)section headings
We're good up to this point...
> or as `TP` paragraph tags.
...but that bit's not correct. The tag of a `TP` paragraph is not a
macro argument, but captured by an input trap, so it doesn't undergo
macro argument expansion.
More correct would be to point out the `mark` argument to the `IP`
macro.
groff_man(7):
.IP [mark [indentation]]
Set an indented paragraph with an optional mark. ...
Some other _groff man_ extension macros also take textual arguments, but
I don't think podlators uses any of these.
groff_man(7):
.SY keyword [suffix]
Begin synopsis. ...
.MR topic [manual‐section [trailing‐text]]
(since groff 1.23) Set a man page cross reference as
“topic(manual‐section)”.
.MT address
.ME [trailing‐text]
Identify address as an RFC 6068 addr‐spec for a “mailto:”
URI with the text between the two macro calls as the link
text. ...
.UR uri
.UE [trailing‐text]
Identify uri as an RFC 3986 URI hyperlink with the text
between the two macro calls as the link text. ...
Regards,
Branden
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