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Re: .CW usage by a new user


From: Jordán
Subject: Re: .CW usage by a new user
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 12:22:03 -0400
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En 5/9/2024 12:17, Russ Allbery escribió:
> 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.

Thanks, but what if I want do something like this:

.CW "$ echo "foo    bar""

Because the output is something like this:

bar"$ echo foo

When I want something like this in the PDF.

$ echo "foo    bar"
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