user input using nroff/troff

Bryan Cardoza bryan at iconsys
Tue Jul 31 05:44:41 AEST 1990


In article <8869 at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>.di xx
>.rd prompt
>.br
>.di

You may also note than in many implementations of [nt]roff, xx can also
be refered to as a string variable (which is what you asked about in
the first place).  In the segment shown above, the .br would still be
preserved even when using \*(xx.

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