[self-follow-up] Yet another of my self-clarifications/corrections...
At 2023-05-31T22:18:04-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At any rate, "chartype" seems to be just syntactic sugar for iterated > "type" commands, as follows. > > chartype "CLASS" abc > > becomes > > type "CLASS" "a" > type "CLASS" "b" > type "CLASS" "c" > > where a, b, c, are ordinary or special groff characters. The foregoing isn't _quite_ syntactic sugar. In GNU eqn, a `type` assignment applies only to the subsequent expression; `chartype` assignments are persistent for the rest of the life of the eqn process, until overridden. I got this right in my updates to the eqn(1) page but managed to goof it here on the list. Regards, Branden
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