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Re: [Groff] What's valid in \X?


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [Groff] What's valid in \X?
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:30:45 GMT

> Unfortunately, \*(}0 (the section number) also contains the
> separating space so it's something like "1.2\ \ " and $3 (the
> section title) may well contains something like "The \&\fInew\fP
> features".  What groff does now is object to the nonbreaking space
> and the zero-width space and ignore them so I get three warnings and
> the output is:
> 
>       [ /Title (1.2The new features) /OUT pdfmark
> 
> whereas what I'd like is to get no warnings and:
> 
>       [ /Title (1.2  The new features) /OUT pdfmark
> 
> The fundamental idea is that you ought to be able to use formatted
> text in \X and get reasonable results.  groff already does a pretty
> good job (it's happy to ignore font and size changes), but I think
> it needs to go just a bit farther.

I fully agree.  Patches please :-)


    Werner


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