Hi Oliver, At 2025-05-07T20:50:22+0200, Oliver Corff via GNU roff typesetting system discussion wrote: > I just read the explanation of "\c" (line continuation) in groff(7). > The manual page says: "The \c escape sequence continues an output > line. Nothing on the input line after it is formatted." > > While the wording is clear enough, may I suggest an alternative > wording? > > "The \c escape sequence continues an output line. Trailing characters > are silently discarded and treated as comment text, equal to \".
The problem with that recasting is that it is inaccurate. Exhibit: $ cat /tmp/oliver.groff \R'a 1' .\" \R'b 2' foo\c\R'c 3' .pnr a b c $ ./build/test-groff -z /tmp/oliver.groff a 1 +0 0 c 3 +0 0 (I'm showing off new features of the `pnr` request in groff Git, but the essential facts about the register values remain the same.) $ cat /tmp/oliver2.groff \R'a 1' .\" \R'b 2' foo\c\R'c 3' .tm a=\na, b=\nb, c=\nc $ ~/groff-1.22.3/bin/groff -z /tmp/oliver2.groff a=1, b=0, c=3 In summary, "nothing is formatted" is not equivalent to "nothing is interpreted". Regards, Branden
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