Re: bin/49485 (mandoc fails to fail if the word No appears unquoted in a reference)

[Steffen Nurpmeso <sdaoden%yandex.com@localhost>]

Antti Kantee <pooka%iki.fi@localhost> wrote:
 |On 16/12/14 23:29, wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
 |> Synopsis: mandoc fails to fail if the word No appears unquoted \
 |> in a reference
 |>
 |> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 |> State-Changed-By: wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost
 |> State-Changed-When: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 23:29:18 +0000
 |> State-Changed-Why:
 |> Thanks for the laugh!
 |> (If you really care about the groff misbehaviour,
 |> we can reopen that, but I don't expect it to be fixed
 |> in NetBSD. It would be wiser to report it to groff upstream
 |> instead.)
 |
 |I'm a bit confused when the same thing is described both as "Not a bug" 
 |and "misbehaviour".
 |
 |The practical aspect I *am* interested in if it's mandated that manpages 
 |should be tested to render properly with both mandoc and groff before 
 |committing them.

It is cryptic and ugly, but it is definetely true that arguments
of the % series are interpreted as normal macros (macros as of
1.22.3), and thus need escaping -- simply enclose in quotation
marks and everything should be fine.
Thanks to Ingo's and Kristaps' roff.7 it is also clear how to
write quotation marks: "Rules are ""complicated""".

--steffen