Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote:
 |> i.e., let me write \*[ITEM] even if that was a macro not a string.
 |> (Or has something adorable happened since then.)
 |
 |I don't understand your (probably sarcastic?) comment.  That \*[ITEM]
 |can call either a macro or a string is a feature which can be useful
 |sometimes.

  .de m
  tea\c
  ..
  .ds s coffee \\*m
  \*m \*s

prints

  tea coffee tea

No, not sarcastic, i really didn't know.
.. and can unnoodle, if i'll find my way through it!

It looks as if it was documented first on 2008-09-28;
do i have to change my version check from

  if (\n[.x] == 1) .if (\n[.y] < 18) .ab [.] requires GNU (t)roff 1.18

to 1.20 for this to work?

 |    Werner

Thanks, that is a really great improvement!

--steffen

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