Re: [Groff] nop request

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Werner,

> I've now implemented a `.nop' request which is the same as `.if 1':
> 
> .if t \{
> .  nop Hallo!
> .\}

Is `nop' a no-operation?  If so, I'd expect it to be more like `.if 0'
then `.if 1'?  Also, how similar is it to `.if 1' and why would I need
it instead?

Finally :-) I looked at the code and it doesn't seem to match what I'd
expect.  The code just seems to skip whitespace tokens leaving the next
non-whitespace token as further input to process.

    $ head x.tr
    abc
    .nop   def ghi
    xyz
    $ ./test-groff -Tascii x.tr | cat -s
    abc def ghi xyz

This test seems to bear this out.

What am I missing?


Ralph.