URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67456>
Summary: [groff(7)] Bad advice for grouping of '\}'
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: bjarniig
Submitted: Sun 24 Aug 2025 09:57:33 PM GMT
Category: General
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Documentation
Status: None
Privacy: Public
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Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
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Date: Sun 24 Aug 2025 09:57:33 PM GMT By: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig>
Subject: [groff(7)] Bad advice for grouping of '\}'
File: man/groff.7.man
In chapter "Control structures", fourth paragraph:
"\} should appear on a line with other occurrences of itself as necessary
to match \{ sequences."
With '\}\}..." the end of a structure (with indentation) is not clearly
visible.
A better practice is to have each "end of a block" on its own line,
like:
. \}
. \}
.\}
matching the beginning of each corresponding block of text.
With
grep -n -F -e '\{\' -e '\}' <file>
the structure is made visible to check for mismatched delimiters.
N.B.
Counting the number of "delimiters" (grep -c -F ...) is a first measure
to check for a possible mismatch.
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