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Re: .CW usage by a new user


From: Lennart Jablonka
Subject: Re: .CW usage by a new user
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 11:44:35 +0000

>I am using the MS macro in groff and with the .CW I saw that I could not
>add a phrase with quotes, well I could write .CW “test” but I can't do
>something like: .CW “”test“” what should I do so that the quotes can be
>seen with .CW?

The most direct way to pass ASCII double quotes as arguments is to quote the 
argument and double the quotes to pass.

    .CW """test"""

But I guess that could be problematic if the macro passes the argument on to 
another macro.



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