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Re: [Groff] [PATCH] correct some \c-related markup


From: Steffen Nurpmeso
Subject: Re: [Groff] [PATCH] correct some \c-related markup
Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 12:34:12 +0200
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"G. Branden Robinson" <address@hidden> wrote:
 |At 2017-05-01T19:30:02+0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
 |> "G. Branden Robinson" <address@hidden> wrote:
 |>|Please find a patch attached.
  ...
 |> I for one always found those one/two/one/two/.. macros very
 |> suspicious, but now i see actual use cases.
 |
 |One of the advantages of some of them is that, if people think to use
 |them, they relieve the writer of having to remember to supply italic
 |corrections:

I came from TeX, and luckily groff then had strings with arguments
already!

  .STRING I \\,\\fI\\$*\\fP\\/

is \*[I almost] as easy (especially with US keyboard) as

  address@hidden@address@hidden@setFont{it}}%
  \def\tit#1{{\it#1\/}}

the \tit{version} of \TeX.  Almost as clean.

--steffen
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