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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: Re: extending (di)troff
Message-ID: <893@gloria.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 12:35:43 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  3 12:35:43 1985
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> > 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
> 
> Better:  \[xyzabc].  \[ is not used anywhere, unless somebody has done
> some really strange things to troff lately.

I thought of that, but it won't work for strings. \*[ is used
by refer(1).  As far as I know, the space convention is the only
one that won't break strings, number registers, and fonts.  (We can
use something prettier if we allow some breakage.)
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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