[bug #65108] [troff] support construction of general file name request arguments

[Dave]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #65108 (group groff):

[comment #1 comment #1:]
> Decide what to do about spaces and tabs.  One can argue about tabs
> being reasonable in file names, but spaces are a fact of life.
> 
> As it happens, all requests that take _file_ arguments
> always do so as the their *last* argument, thus could reuse
> optional-strippable-leading-quote syntax.  This would be friendly
> to users, I think.  No new rule to remember for this argument type.

Friendly to some users, but less friendly to those who use soelim's syntax for
handling spaces and backslashes in filenames.

I argued in bug #59442 that groff and soelim shouldn't use competing filename
syntaxes, as this would not be user-friendly.  I still think that's true, but
the right solution might be to make soelim also use the syntax you've outlined
here, breaking back compatibility in exchange for a more scalable solution.


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