> Doug McIlroy <[email protected]> wrote: > > The -ms macro QE typically draws a misleading diagnostic, "unbalanced QE". > This breaks old documents that expect QP-QE (quoted paragraph) to narrow > the text and then restore it. The groff QE does not restore. > > In fact, QE is aliased to RE, which means it will cause other trouble > for a quoted paragraphs inside an RS-RE relative indent. > > I guess the rationale for deviating from previous practice was to make > quoted paragraphs like other kinds of paragraph, which don't have end > macros.
That’s the way I’d always thought it worked. QP sets a block quoted paragraph, and the next LP or PP resets the margins to default. Perhaps it would be better to: .als QE nop So it’s silently ignored. — Larry
