Clarke Echols writes: > > andlabs wrote: > > Hello. I noticed, that given > > > > .ds U \\s-2UNIX\\s0 > > > > in a troff file after -ms, and neither -ms nor that file define a macro .U, > > I could do > > > > .U > > > > and it would be replaced with the contents of that string. Is that a feature > > of groff? I'd like to clear things up. Thanks. > > Doesn't work that way.
Yes, it does. And it "always" has. It was an undocumented feature (or bug, if you prefer) of nroff/troff that groff has preserved. However, there's no good reason to ever make use of it, so don't. -Larry Jones How am I supposed to learn surgery if I can't dissect anything? -- Calvin
