[Groff] Re: \X and grohtml

[Gaius Mulley]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

> > Yes I see no reason why \[foo] cannot be used - it was originally
> > there to pass glyph names inside "specials" to post-grohtml to allow
> > for URLs to include glyphs rather than just single ascii characters.
> > I can implement this if you wish..
> 
> Please do so!  Then I can easily add the .device request.

Hi Werner,

This appears to work with my eyeballed set of tests.  I wonder if this
is what you had in mind?

regards,
Gaius



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<  *                   \(char\). A sequence of \\ represents \.
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>  *                   \[char]. A sequence of \\ represents \.
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<  *                      "cost = \(Po\)3.00 file = \\foo\\bar"
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>  *                      "cost = \[Po]3.00 file = \\foo\\bar"
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<     if ((i+1<str.length()) && (str.substring(i, 2) == string("\\("))) {
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>     if ((i+1<str.length()) && (str.substring(i, 2) == string("\\["))) {
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<       i += 2; // move over \(
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>       i += 2; // move over \[
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<       while ((i+1<str.length()) && (str.substring(i, 2) != string("\\)"))) {
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>       while ((i<str.length()) && (str.substring(i, 1) != string("]"))) {
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<       if ((i+1<str.length()) && (str.substring(i, 2) == string("\\)")))
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>       if ((i<str.length()) && (str.substring(i, 1) == string("]")))
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<       mac->append('(');
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>       mac->append('[');
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<       mac->append('\\');
<       mac->append(')');
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>       mac->append(']');