At 2025-02-20T19:39:37+0100, onf wrote: > On Thu Feb 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM CET, Douglas McIlroy wrote: > > The idea that the argument of .so might contain unquoted spaces is > > anathema--contrary to groff convention and fortunately not supported. > > As far as I know, .so currently doesn't support spaces even when > quoted.
That's correct, and true of all troffs known to me. GNU soelim has long supported a backslash escaping convention for spaces, but that convention is not recognized by any known troff, making for awkwardness; it seems pretty counterintuitive to me to have the `so` request work differently depending on whether it's soelim or the formatter that interprets it. Regards, Branden
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