On Tuesday 26 February 2008 03:53, Clarke Echols wrote: > Michael(tm) Smith wrote: > > .PP > > For more information, see the preceding section ( > > .t-or-n "Description" "DESCRIPTION" > > ) or the > > .t-or-n "Introduction" "INTRODUCTION" > > section for this document. > > > > And if I then view the rendered output of that, I get: > > > > For more information, see the preceding section ( Description ) > > or the Introduction section for this document. > > > > That is, an undesirable wordspace gets inserted after the between > > the parens before and after the word "Description". > > > > Hence my question about whether there really is no way I could use > > a set of escapes instead of a request... > > > > --Mike > > Add the line-continuation escape inside the argument [Clarke's own > subsequently corrected version]: > > .PP > For more information, see the preceding section (\c > .t-or-n "Description\c" "DESCRIPTION\c" > ) or the > .t-or-n "Introduction" "INTRODUCTION" > section for this document. > > That will prevent insertion of whitespace where end-of-line occurs > in the source file.
That's one perfectly reasonable way to do it. Another, which is similar to the method adopted by the `.B' macro in -ms package, (for example), is to add additional optional suffix and prefix arguments to the macro expansion, e.g.: .de t-or-n . ie t \ . nop \\$4\\$1\\$3 . el \ . nop \\$4\\$2\\$3 .. Then you can write the above example either as is, or in the equivalent alternative form: .PP For more information, see the preceding section .t-or-n "Description" "DESCRIPTION" ) ( or the .t-or-n "Introduction" "INTRODUCTION" section for this document. depending on which is best suited to your application. Regards, Keith.
