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Re: [BUG] groff: inconsistent behavior of " to separate arguments


From: Ralph Corderoy
Subject: Re: [BUG] groff: inconsistent behavior of " to separate arguments
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2022 10:06:14 +0000

Hi Ingo,

> but the roff(7) manual in the mandoc package says this:
...
>     Leaving out the terminating double quote character at the end of
>     the line is discouraged.

I think that's idiomatic and an early thing one learns about troff's
‘strings’ compared to programming languages in order to read others'
troff.

CSTR 54, §7.3 Arguments, ends with ‘A trailing double quote may be
omitted’ without recommending against doing so.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.



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