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- From: syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: `nroff' copyright symbol macro "\(co" problem
- Date: 20 Dec 1992 11:13:48 -0500
- Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA
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- d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart) writes:
-
- >Many of the files in the Elm doc subdirectory include what appears to be
- >an `nroff' copyright symbol macro:
- > \(co
- >Sadly, our AIX 3.2 `nroff' converts it to the following nonsense:
- > ^[8c^[9
- >where ^[ is the ESC character. ^[8 restores the cursor from its previously
- >saved position. ^[9 is not defined.
-
- Right church, wrong pew..... you are using nroff with a 'device table'
- entry for a machine that uses ESC 8 for half line up, and ESC 9 for half
- line down. (Not an uncommon nroff table.) The trick is to learn about
- col, the 'reverse line filter' Take the output of nroff and run it through
- col, which will filter those things out and place things on the nearest
- appropriate line.
-
- >Do all other `nroff's recognize this macro? If not, could instances of
- >the string "\(co" be replaced with the string "(C) "?
- I'll look into replacing the Copyright Symbol with the word Copyright
- (sorry (C) is not legally appropriate) in the tmac.n or code in a .ifn
- macro.
-
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