Re: [Groff] Question about .substring

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Tadziu Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:
 |> Hello: this is a bug?
 |[snip]
 |
 |Where do you see a bug?
 |
 |man 7 groff:
 |
 |  .substring xx n1 n2
 |    Replace the string named xx with the substring defined by
 |    the indices n1 and n2.
 |
 |groff:
 |
 |    .ds x abc
 |    .substring x 0 1
 |    .tm \*x
 |--> ab
 |    .ds x abc
 |    .substring x 0 0
 |    .tm \*x
 |--> a

Hm, i now recognize the word indices.  And have seen
a documentation improvement commit as well as a thread back from
2002-07.
My fault, usually this is index:length not
index:inclusive-index-of-substring.
Sorry.. and thanks,

--steffen