Hi Branden,
thank you for having patience with me :)
I have joined all the replies here.
On Sun Nov 3, 2024 at 4:36 AM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2024-11-03T03:56:23+0100, onf wrote:
> > Ugh, I should have taken more time to reply -- I missed the fact that
> > groff doesn't consider DEL
Hi onf,
At 2024-11-03T03:56:23+0100, onf wrote:
> On Sun Nov 3, 2024 at 2:53 AM CET, onf wrote:
> > changing the escape character hasn't occured to me, that's clever!
> > Unfortunately it doesn't work -- groff won't allow me to set the
> > escape character to a control one, and I cannot use some o
Hi onf,
At 2024-11-03T03:25:01+0100, onf wrote:
> On Sat Nov 2, 2024 at 4:15 AM CET, Dave Kemper wrote:
> > Parsing strings that contain escapes is something that an open groff
> > bug report (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62264) seeks to make more
> > consistent. Does the mechanism proposed in t
On Sun Nov 3, 2024 at 2:53 AM CET, onf wrote:
> changing the escape character hasn't occured to me, that's clever!
> Unfortunately it doesn't work -- groff won't allow me to set the
> escape character to a control one, and I cannot use some obscure
> unicode glyph because it must be ASCII... I coul
Hi onf,
At 2024-11-03T02:53:14+0100, onf wrote:
> changing the escape character hasn't occured to me, that's clever!
> Unfortunately it doesn't work -- groff won't allow me to set the
> escape character to a control one,
It does, but it has to be a valid input character.
groff(7):
On a ma
Hi Dave,
On Sat Nov 2, 2024 at 4:15 AM CET, Dave Kemper wrote:
> Parsing strings that contain escapes is something that an open groff
> bug report (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62264) seeks to make more
> consistent. Does the mechanism proposed in that report sound like it
> would solve the prob
Hi Branden,
On Sat Nov 2, 2024 at 10:16 AM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> There's an example of this in groff's "an.tmac" file.
>
> It's not a model of elegance, but it works.
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/tmac/an.tmac?id=5011cd1d5a647d977f74ccaad21e5abe004fe30e#n529
>
>
Hi onf & Dave,
At 2024-11-01T22:15:58-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> Parsing strings that contain escapes is something that an open groff
> bug report (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62264) seeks to make more
> consistent. Does the mechanism proposed in that report sound like it
> would solve the prob
Hi onf,
Parsing strings that contain escapes is something that an open groff
bug report (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62264) seeks to make more
consistent. Does the mechanism proposed in that report sound like it
would solve the problem you're facing? (By default, the savannah bug
tracker displ
