Re: [Groff] mdoc and punctuation

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I sent a bug report to OpenSSH [1] about the use of ".Ql ?" when the
> desired output was "'?'" rather than "''?". I got a response back
> claiming that the output I saw wasn't reproducible under any of the
> BSDs, and asking whether this was not in fact a bug in groff.

It's not a bug, it's a logical extension.  The old BSD mdoc macros are
not consequent here for reasons beyond my knowledge: Look at the `z.',
`z,', ... registers in old BSD's doc-common and you can see that `z!'
and `z?' are missing, while groff's mdoc has `doc-punct!' and
`doc-punct?'.

IMHO the OpenSSH team should apply your patch even if not necessary
for old BSD's mdoc macros.


   Werner