Re: [groff] Problems redefining macro $c for -me macros

2017-12-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-12-03T09:06:52-0500, Mike Bianchi wrote: > > I also find it funny if I ever need to talk about money in dollars: a > > dollar sign ($) is obviously needed. Tried escaping the $ like `\$', but > > that ..obviously.. didn't work. > > But it seemed ..so.. close, so I tried this: > .cha

Re: [groff] Problems redefining macro $c for -me macros

2017-12-03 Thread Mike Bianchi
> I also find it funny if I ever need to talk about money in dollars: a > dollar sign ($) is obviously needed. Tried escaping the $ like `\$', but > that ..obviously.. didn't work. But it seemed ..so.. close, so I tried this: .char \[$] "$ Dollar \[$] The special character \[$] i

Re: [groff] Problems redefining macro $c for -me macros

2017-12-03 Thread Stephanie Björk
That seems very reasonable an explanation. Thank you. :) I didn't know that the problem had something to do with EQN's inline equation. It wasn't so obvious, but it makes sense nonetheless. I also find it funny if I ever need to talk about money in dollars: a dollar sign ($) is obviously needed

Re: [groff] Problems redefining macro $c for -me macros

2017-12-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Stephanie, > using the eqn "delim" request with dollars seems to start an inline > equation for ".de $c"! Yes, Steffen's right. The `$' in `$c' is looking to the preprocessor eqn as part of the inline equation delimeters set beforehand with `delim $$'. Moving the `.de $c' definition to befor

Re: [groff] [UTROFF] Troff and xml

2017-12-03 Thread Pierre-Jean
Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > It seems to be removed by the mailing list server > > Yes, I expect Mailman has been configured to strip text/html parts. > Just include it in the plain/text part of your email? Or have your MUA > send it as a text/plain part since it's the HTML we want to see, not the

Re: [groff] [UTROFF] Troff and xml

2017-12-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Pierre-Jean, > It seems to be removed by the mailing list server Yes, I expect Mailman has been configured to strip text/html parts. Just include it in the plain/text part of your email? Or have your MUA send it as a text/plain part since it's the HTML we want to see, not the rendering of it.