On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:32:43AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote: > > For the non-German speaking users: I am strongly wondering why the groff > > HTML output can't even do quoting of input correctly. > > Perhaps the html backend just needs improvements. Theoretically, for > troff, '<', '>', and '&' are operators, so always quoting before > parsing the input is not the correct solution.
I slightly disagree. They are operators and special if the context allows a numeric epxression. Otherwise they are just normal characters. Quoting should not be done before parsing the input, but when creating output... Joerg
