Re: [Groff] spaces in file names

2008-01-06 Thread Larry Kollar
Werner LEMBERG wrote: I wonder whether this should be changed to the behaviour of the least surprise so that `foo bar.ps' gets loaded instead. It's bitten me before, although I never mentioned it. I'd like if it recognized the `\ ' construct, the same way most *nix shells escape spaces in fil

Re: [Groff] spaces in file names

2008-01-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > I wonder whether this should be changed to the behaviour of the > > least surprise so that `foo bar.ps' gets loaded instead. However, > > I haven't yet investigated whether this causes problems in the > > implementation. > > It's bitten me before, although I never mentioned it. I'd like if it

Re: [Groff] spaces in file names

2008-01-05 Thread Larry Kollar
Werner LEMBERG wrote: how does, say, .so foo bar.ps behave in other troff versions? With groff, it currently tries to load `foo', ignoring the rest of the line. To be more precise, it is impossible to have a space within a file name at all! Basically, all other requests are affected too

[Groff] spaces in file names

2008-01-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Friends, how does, say, .so foo bar.ps behave in other troff versions? With groff, it currently tries to load `foo', ignoring the rest of the line. To be more precise, it is impossible to have a space within a file name at all! Basically, all other requests are affected too since you can'