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Re: CVS commit: src/share/man/man5



On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:32:43AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > For the non-German speaking users: I am strongly wondering why the groff
> > HTML output can't even do quoting of input correctly.
> 
> Perhaps the html backend just needs improvements. Theoretically, for
> troff, '<', '>', and '&' are operators, so always quoting before
> parsing the input is not the correct solution.

I slightly disagree. They are operators and special if the context
allows a numeric epxression. Otherwise they are just normal characters.
Quoting should not be done before parsing the input, but when creating
output...

Joerg


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