Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.text Subject: extending (di)troff Message-ID: <877@gloria.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 11:12:50 EDT Article-I.D.: gloria.877 Posted: Wed Jun 26 11:12:50 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 00:15:57 EDT Distribution: net Organization: SUNY-Buffalo Computer Sci. Lines: 21 Two-character names must go! But we don't want to break anything. How about this: x one-character name \(xy two-character name \( xyzabc) n-character name After all, no two-character name begins with a space. This also allows \f( xyzabc) n-character font name \n( xyzabc) n-character number register \*( xyzabc) n-character string name and even \s( 12345) huge point size It's a little ugly, but it's workable. Comments? -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel