Re: .CW usage by a new user

[Russ Allbery]

"isf (Jordán)" <isf@member.fsf.org> writes:

> Thats literally what Im trying and the output is something like this:

> Input:
> .CW ""$ echo foo    bar""

> Ouput:
> echo$

You need three quotes, not two.  Semantically, the whole macro argument is
enclosed in double quotes, and then the double quotes within that
double-quoted string have to be escaped, which *roff does by doubling
them.  So:

.CW """$ echo foo    bar"""

With only two double quotes, I think *roff parses that as an empty string.

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Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org)             <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>