[bug #42675] [troff] \} treated as macro argument

Update of bug #42675 (group groff):

                  Status:                    None => In Progress
             Assigned to:                    None => gbranden
         Planned Release:                    None => 1.25.0

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Follow-up Comment #13:

With changes in the _groff_ 1.25 development cycle and the fix for bug #68430
in my working copy, this issue is resolved.


$ cat EXPERIMENTS/count-args.roff
.de CA
\\n(.$
..
.if n \{.CA\}
.if n \{.CA \}
.if n \{.CA foo\}
.if n \{.CA foo \}
.pl \n(nlu
$ solaris10 nroff EXPERIMENTS/count-args.roff | cat -s
0 0 1 1

$ heirloom nroff EXPERIMENTS/count-args.roff | cat -s
0 0 1 1

$ dwb nroff EXPERIMENTS/count-args.roff | cat -s
0 0 1 1

$ 9 nroff EXPERIMENTS/count-args.roff | cat -s
1 1 1 2

$ ~/groff-1.24.1/bin/nroff EXPERIMENTS/count-args.roff | cat -s
0 1 1 2
$ ~/groff-HEAD/bin/nroff EXPERIMENTS/count-args.roff | cat -s
0 0 1 1


As shown, Plan 9 troff is an outlier.  I have no plans to do anything about
that.


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