Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>: > Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > We can cooperate to work around this. One obvious way: If the > > square-bracket aliases on your page were marked up as the groff > > escapes \*[lB] and \*[rB] instead of '[' and ']' they would render the > > same, but I think I could teach my parser to no longer be confused and > > I wouldn't have to try to patch them out in favor of a wall of text. > > Something like that should be fine. However, wouldn't it cause the man page > to fail with traditional troff, as still shipped and supported on Solaris > 10? In that case, perhaps we could use [\"[ and ]\"] as special markers > instead of using \*[lB] and \*[rB]; this should work with bold old troff and > groff, if I understand the proposal correctly.
I see the problem, but I'm afraid my groff-fu is no strong enough to grok your proposed solution. Why will those sequences work? What are they doing? -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> My work is funded by the Internet Civil Engineering Institute: https://icei.org Please visit their site and donate: the civilization you save might be your own.