On Mon Oct 7, 2024 at 7:17 PM CEST, onf wrote:
> [...]
> On Mon Oct 7, 2024 at 2:09 PM CEST, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > [...]
> > Unless...hmm. Unless maybe the problem that this trick of punning a
> > macro to a string won't work when quotation marks surround the macro
> > interpolation, beca
Hi Branden,
thank you for taking the time to look into this.
On Mon Oct 7, 2024 at 2:09 PM CEST, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> [...]
> At 2024-10-05T23:32:33+0200, onf wrote:
> > sit \*[1 A "\\*[2 "B*[3 C D]E" F]G" H] amet.
> >
> > Once I change it to be an actual macro, though, it reports
Hi onf,
At 2024-10-05T23:32:33+0200, onf wrote:
> Here is a short example of the sort of thing I am trying to get
> to work:
[...]
> sit \*[1 A "\\*[2 "B*[3 C D]E" F]G" H] amet.
>
> Once I change it to be an actual macro, though, it reports this:
> troff: backtrace: 'FILE.tr':17: macro '1
Hi all,
I am trying to nest multiple macros which are called using string
syntax with arguments. I intend to use this to build macros which
can be combined, such as a superscript within an italic macro
(which automatically adds italic correction between the italic
text and anything immediately pre
