[Dropped Bruno Haible from cc, as I don't think anything below is of interest to him.]
On 4/20/23, G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On the other hand, both will be harder to understand; As they should be! This is the very reason Real Programmers never comment their code! > the second relies upon a GNU troff extension; True, but hardly the only one in pdfpic.tmac. And like long names, .shift, and .break (three groffisms I noticed at first glance), \R is also implemented in at least Heirloom. > and my engineering instincts desire a general solution to the problem, > hence <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64071>. That'd be best, but seems further off, whereas a sed tweak to emit a single line of two \R escapes (I never use this feature, so I had actually forgotten it existed) is simple enough to, if not make it into 1.23 itself, at least be in a 1.23.1 minor release, if such a thing happens.
