> Excellent! I've experimented with it for a while, and it works as
> documented except for one bit of strange behavior:
>
> If the first thing that occurs in the text following leading spaces
> is a font-switch, the font-switch doesn't take effect. [...]
>
> .de LSM
> .LP
> ..
> .lsm LSM
>
> ...
> \fIfor
> all
> good
>
> The "for" is not italicized. [...] The lsm macro seems to be
> reading away all initial escapes.
I'll document this better, but it is correct behaviour. The \fI is
read while skipping the spaces -- there are a bunch of other escapes
(\F, \H, \m, \M, ...) which don't lead to a token but modify the
current `groff state' immediately. Right before processing the `f' of
the word `for', your `LSM' macro is called, which in turn calls `LP'.
However, `LP' resets the current font, cancelling the effect of \fI.
Werner
