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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Awf: Henry's Amazingly Workable Formatter (was Re: Groff)
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.175524.20816@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 90 17:55:24 GMT

In article <10416@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>: Sounds like Larry needs to go back to his manual and find out what the
>: nroff/troff comment convention is.  (Hint:  it's not ''.)
>
>Gee, if I didn't know better, I'd say you were trying to be patronizing...  :-)

Think "irritated", not "patronizing". :-)

>Speaking of conventions, I would think that awf, like nroff, would simply
>ignore any macros it doesn't recognize.  (Though I can see arguments
>for taking the opposite tack.)

I thought about this at some length, but decided that considering awf's
rather serious limitations, it was better for it to complain when it sees
something it doesn't understand.  It's not safe to assume that formatting
errors will always be noticed.
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"I don't *want* to be normal!"         | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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