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Subject: Re: putting comments in nroff/troff--var - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 9-Sep-84 22:22:39 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  9 22:22:39 1984
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#R:ucbtopaz:-53600:cbnap:27300006:000:391
cbnap!whp    Sep  9 22:07:00 1984

An interesting bug in n/troff regarding comments is that a comment following
a command must be preceeded by spaces and not tabs!  That is,

.xx	\" this comment preceeded by a tab, and may cause n/troff to blow up.
.xx     \" this comment is preceeded by 5 blanks, and will work ok.

The reason for this is obscure, but the bug was reported and will be fixed
(hopefully) in a future release.