Werner,
Thank you for the mild rebuke, but info.groff is not exactly my friend.
We are talking about a silly bug that could be fixed in a few minutes.
Much more work is to document it, to circumvent it, writing e-mails
back-n-forth about it. The idea that whilst I am working on something,
I need to be interrupted with a tour to info.groff
about trailing spaces and tabs does not appeal to me.
But I accept that for you "legacy" is the name of the game, and that
GNU heaven is happy with the status quo, integer
arithmetic & all things like that included. I just stated my opinion,
I apologize if I offended you.
Miklos
On 14/11/2009, at 00:51 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
This is a rather inelegant solution but it works.
Interesting thing:
.so file\" \" does not work (utter chaos)
??? This works just fine. Are you perhaps missing a final newline?
.so file <tabs> \" does not work
This is for compatibility with legacy troff; this limitation was there
from the beginning and is well-documented.
PS I did not know that I can ignore " at the start of the string
This is documented too. `info groff' is your friend...
Werner
