Tadziu Hoffmann <hoffm...@usm.uni-muenchen.de> wrote: |[snip] |> do i have to change my version check [...] to 1.20 for this to work? | |This has worked for ages already in Unix troff (because macros and |strings share the same namespace), and my guess is in groff as well. |It might just not have been documented.
It definitely wasn't, and i can't remember that there were any examples that used this notation (though i haven't read the entire manual from the first to the last page -- and most likely i wouldn't have dared to use the notation regardless). And i definitely didn't think about *roff implementation details once i've wrote my letter macros; they work fine with GNU troff. You seem to be right anyway; the nroff sitting in the Heirloom project doctools can also handle the code snippet from my previous mail correctly. --steffen
