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From: morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael Morrell)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Troff Macro Programming A: Part 1 [repost]
Message-ID: <2610025@hpsal2>
Date: 1 Jun 89 01:02:00 GMT
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/ hpsal2:comp.text / scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman) / 12:24 pm  May 30, 1989 /

Just as a suggestion, one of the things I hacked into ditroff (many
years ago) was to accept "legal" \s but added the ability to do a \s(xx
where the xx can be any point size.
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This feature is present in ELAN's Eroff.  I don't know why the original troff
decided to make \s the exception in not requiring the "(" when giving a 2
digit argument.