[aspell-devel] Aspell nroff filter

[Brian Nelson]

I talked to the Debian groff maintainer here at Debconf4 about creating
an Aspell nroff filter.  He said he'd need to think about how to
implement it, and noted that the best place to find syntax documentation
is in the groff info manual (in particular 'gtroff Reference'::Embedded
Commands).

I also checked out the ispell code to see how it filters nroff.  It
seems most (all?) the code is in defmt.c so you can take a look at that.
It's kind of hairy stuff.  Basically when it encounters a NRBACKSLASH
(anywhere) or a NRDOT (start of line only), it ignores some or all of
the following text, depending on the context.

HTH.

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