> groff <<'EOF'
> .warn
> .ie 1 .tm action1
> .el .ie 0 .tm action2
> .el .ie 0 .tm action3
> .el .tm defaultaction
> EOF
> action1
> <standard input>:4: warning: unbalanced .el request
> <standard input>:5: warning: unbalanced .el request
>
> ---discussion---
>
> These warnings seem wrong. In
>
> .ie cond anything
>
> it nowhere says that "anything" may not be another conditional,
> so you ought be able to write "case" constructs like the above
> without having to enclose all the "else" branches in \{\ ... \}
Well, it's not only groff which complains. Using heirloom troff,
which is *much* nearer to the original AT&T implementation, you get
the same warning:
troff -x3 ...
troff: .el without matching .ie; line 4
troff: .el without matching .ie; line 5
You have to live with that limitation. :-)
Werner
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