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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: troff question
Message-ID: <7490@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 17 Jan 88 00:50:55 GMT
References: <1265@cg-atla.UUCP> <29400005@ccvaxa>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <29400005@ccvaxa> hapke@ccvaxa.UUCP writes:
 > 
 > First of all, you shouldn't need to worry about spaces.  According to
 > Ossano's "NROFF/TROFF User's Manual", section 7.3, "the argument separator
 > [for macro arguments] is the space character, ..."  Extra spaces seem to be
 > ignored in my tests.
 > 
Note however that in some cases it is fatal if there are spaces.
E.g. the plain troff request
.tl 'a'b'c'       \" add some spaces
gives unwanted results in nofill mode if the line after it starts
with spaces (tables).  With some versions of troff this results in a wrong
horizontal position for the line.  (This is a bug of course.)
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