[bug #68511] [troff] `hcode` doesn't work on ordinary characters since commit 994fcce775, 2026-05-24

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:05:09 -0400 (EDT)

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Follow-up Comment #15, bug #68511 (group groff):

My previous comment was exquisitely ill-written.

Let me try those first 2 paragraphs again.

At 2026-07-11T22:01:05-0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Both were conceptually simple, and both arose from regressions arising
> from refactorings I did on the same day.
>
> Again, conceptually, the problem is that we've been muddling around
> without a proper grammar for the groff language.  Several requests,
> like `cflags`, `hcode`, and `rchar`, can take "groff characters"
> (ordinary, special, indexed) as "arguments", but unlike other
> "arguments" in *roff, spaces need not separate them.

That might be more comprehensible.  Fingers crossed.



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