Re: [Groff] escaping punctuation in mdoc pages

[jmc]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:08:15PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> > I take it that it's *not* necessary in the body of text, only within
> > macros?
> 
> You don't have to protect them within macros.
> 

OK, now I'm confused. I don't have to escape punctuation in macros?

.Ic ?

does *not* mark up.

> > groff_mdoc(7) is not very helpful about what to do here, and in most
> > cases I detect no difference in output.
> 
> You should read the info pages of groff which have a complete
> reference of troff(1).  Another helpful page is groff_char(7).
> 
> 
>     Werner

I'll have a look at these.

Thanks for the pointers,
jmc.
-- 
Surprising Auld Nick's a good start.