Hi Doug,
At 2023-05-22T20:04:53-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> > Basically, [if] a tab occurs within braces, it will be rejected.
This statement of mine was, alas, too general. A tab within braces will
be rejected (diagnosed and ignored) if the braces are necessary to
disambiguate the input.
>
Sadly Doug, I am nowhere near as economical with words as you!
On Mon, 22 May 2023, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
Basically, [if] a tab occurs within braces, it will be rejected.
Running eqn standalone, I got identical outputs from these two inputs
.EQ
ab
.EN
.EQ
{ab}
.EN
The tab is passed to g
> Basically, [if] a tab occurs within braces, it will be rejected.
Running eqn standalone, I got identical outputs from these
two inputs
.EQ
ab
.EN
.EQ
{ab}
.EN
The tab is passed to groff as \t\,
man 7 groff says \t is "uninterpreted", yet the tab
skips to a tab stop set by .ta. This leaves me
Hi Branden,
I had a typo in a man(7) page where for some reason I slipped an .IP
in the wrong place. I had no warnings about that IP. Neither
groff(1) nor mandoc(1) complained about it. And BTW, mandoc(1)'s
behavior seems the right one to me.
We're lucky that this is not a regression, since gr
[Sorry--my previous email was a botch.]
At 2023-05-22T15:46:15+1000, Damian McGuckin wrote:
> I am resurrecting my re-write of the EQN User Guide which was itself
> an elaboration of Ted Harding's User Guide. I have used many examples
> from BrianK's and LorindaC's original 2nd Edition EQN documen
At 2022-07-27T21:48:52+, DJ Chase wrote:
> On Wed Jul 27, 2022 at 4:54 PM EDT, Robert Goulding wrote:
> > That seems to work! The only downside (if it is one), is that Greek
> > in mathematical expressions is now also unslanted (see attached).
> > That's no big deal for me, as I almost never ha
