Gaius,
what's the reason to represent special characters of the form \[foo]
as \(foo\) in the `x X' intermediate output command? Why not \[foo]
also? If this is possible, can you change it, please?
Reason for the question is my efforts to implement a .device request
(almost) equal to \X. All requests which take an arbitrary string
(.write, .ds, etc.) read this argument in `copy mode'. This means
that \[foo] isn't interpreted specially but copied verbatim. I would
like to avoid special code which makes the argument handling of
.device different to similar requests, and having \[foo] in the
intermediate output also makes this possible.
At a first glance I couldn't find a particular reason for \(foo\)...
Werner
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