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commit 790dc6688559810b67cd454e0764026703acc537
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Thu Feb 20 20:42:52 2025 -0600
NEWS: Add caveat regarding quotes in file names.
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NEWS | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d9efeb4d5..dee304b13 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -36,6 +36,26 @@ Noteworthy incompatible changes
to tell the formatter to load the "e.tmac" file rather than "e.tmac ".
See the items below for further details.
+* If your roff(7) documents specify a file name that starts with a
+ neutral double quote (") to any of the requests `cf`, `hpf`,
+ `hpfa`, `mso`, `msoquiet`, `nx`, `open`, `opena`, `so`, `soquiet`, or
+ `trf`, you are likely to get a diagnostic message, or the formatter
+ will open a file of the same name except for the leading neutral
+ double quote. That is because these requests are now able to process
+ file names containing leading space characters. (This change also
+ makes the request syntax consistent with that of `ds`, `as`, and
+ others.) The solution is to add an additional neutral double quote to
+ the start of the file name argument. For example, we would change:
+
+ .so "5150".lrc
+
+ to:
+
+ .so ""5150".lrc
+
+ to tell the formatter to read a file named '"5150".lrc', where the
+ neutral single quotes bracket the file name.
+
troff
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