From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from scc-mailout.scc.kit.edu (scc-mailout.scc.kit.edu [129.13.185.201]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p35MYvPL017290 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 18:34:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hekate.usta.de (asta-nat.asta.uni-karlsruhe.de [172.22.63.82]) by scc-mailout-01.scc.kit.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72 #1) id 1Q7Eps-0003Ww-8x; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:34:56 +0200 Received: from donnerwolke.usta.de ([172.24.96.3]) by hekate.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7Eps-0007Uu-9s; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:34:56 +0200 Received: from iris.usta.de ([172.24.96.5] helo=usta.de) by donnerwolke.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7Eps-0005lk-91; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:34:56 +0200 Received: from schwarze by usta.de with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7Eps-0002Y3-81; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:34:56 +0200 Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 00:34:56 +0200 From: Ingo Schwarze To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv Cc: tristan.leguern@gmail.com, espie@nerim.net Subject: Re: PATCH: .de macro name may end in tab Message-ID: <20110405223456.GG30791@iris.usta.de> References: <20110405214836.GD30791@iris.usta.de> <4D9B9173.5030103@bsd.lv> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-tech Reply-To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D9B9173.5030103@bsd.lv> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Hi Kristaps, Kristaps Dzonsons wrote on Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 12:02:27AM +0200: > Ingo, I'm Ok with this (do we stipulated spaces in any of the > existing documentation?), We have this in roff(7): REQUEST SYNTAX A request or macro line consists of: 1. the control character `.' or `'' at the beginning of the line, 2. optionally an arbitrary amount of whitespace, 3. the name of the request or the macro, which is one word of arbitrary length, terminated by whitespace, 4. and zero or more arguments delimited by whitespace. So the manual seems ok, only the implementation was wrong. Thanks for your feedback! Ingo -- To unsubscribe send an email to tech+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv