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> I assume this comes from the fact that the macro expands the
> argument twice - i.e., passes it on to yet another macro.
Yes, probably. (See the attached experiment.)
> It's not only weird that sometimes arguments have to be quoted
> once, sometimes twice and even more often - it also
Hi Clarke, thanks for your reply, but this is in fact not knew to me. If
you read [1] you'll see that the problem is about passing a single
string to a macro if that string contains spaces.
On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 09:44:53AM -0600, Clarke Echols wrote:
> On 09/01/2012 09:12 AM, Cedric Sodhi wrote:
On 09/01/2012 09:12 AM, Cedric Sodhi wrote:
Hello, I wanted to bring up a problem that I had mentioned a while ago
[1] but to which I've found not satisfactory solution, whatsoever, yet.
How does Escaping actually work in Groff? Is what I said in [1] true and
there is in fact no consistent method
Hello, I wanted to bring up a problem that I had mentioned a while ago
[1] but to which I've found not satisfactory solution, whatsoever, yet.
How does Escaping actually work in Groff? Is what I said in [1] true and
there is in fact no consistent method and rather, quotes cannot be
escaped like one
