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From: davidb@Pacer.UUCP (David Barts)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: At wit's end with nroff -me
Message-ID: <400@pacer.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 90 19:47:11 GMT
Organization: Pacer Corp., Bothell, WA
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A while ago a posted an article about my frustrations in getting
| to map to \ correctly inside an index in an nroff-me file that
had
	.tr |\\
set.  Nobody has responded yet, but I have managed to come up with
the following workaround.

Before adding anything to the index, I do:
	.am %x
	.tr |^G
	..
Then, to print the index, I say:
	.tr ^G\\
	.xp

Apparently, there is a double translation that takes place _at the time
the index is printed_.  In all my previous efforts to circumvent this
problem, I had assumed that one translation was taking place when text
was appended to the index macro, and one when it was printed.

My solution is generally ugly, but it works.
-- 
David Barts			Pacer Corporation, Bothell, WA
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