Update of bug #61394 (project groff):
Status: Postponed => Invalid
Assigned to: None => gbranden
Open/Closed: Open => Closed
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Follow-up Comment #2:
Revisiting after almost 2 years...
I don't think it's within *roff's design to cope with this. But the user
can.
In AT&T *roff you could bracket the formatting of a negative register value
with character translations to do the needful. You could also store the
register interpolation in a string first (keeping in mind that character
translation doesn't happen until _formatting_, which a string definition
isn't).
.tr -\-
.ds a \n(nl
page position is \*a
.tr --
son-in-law
.pl \n(nlu
Withdrawing; closing as invalid.
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