On Sat, Mar 10, 2018, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 01:14:14PM -0500, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> > Another reason to stop stripping. If we're going to recommend that
> > users put \" after a trailing space in strings in order to protect
> > against superfluous spaces, it's counter-productive to remove them
> > from om.tmac, especially since it's introducing errors.
> >
> >[...]
>
> A suggested patch to keep the protection is in the patch #53314 on the
> bug-groff list.
The patch doesn't take into account definitions of the form
.[da]s foo \
"bar \"
I'm still strongly in favour of not stripping om.tmac, so providing
a fix would be counterproductive. :)
Unless there is a compelling reason to strip om.tmac, I'd like to
remove it from mom.am. Comments?
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Peter Schaffter
http://www.schaffter.ca
