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