Re: [groff] Problems redefining macro $c for -me macros

2017-12-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-12-03T09:06:52-0500, Mike Bianchi wrote: > > I also find it funny if I ever need to talk about money in dollars: a > > dollar sign ($) is obviously needed. Tried escaping the $ like `\$', but > > that ..obviously.. didn't work. > > But it seemed ..so.. close, so I tried this: > .cha

Re: [groff] Problems redefining macro $c for -me macros

2017-12-03 Thread Mike Bianchi
> I also find it funny if I ever need to talk about money in dollars: a > dollar sign ($) is obviously needed. Tried escaping the $ like `\$', but > that ..obviously.. didn't work. But it seemed ..so.. close, so I tried this: .char \[$] "$ Dollar \[$] The special character \[$] i

Re: [groff] Problems redefining macro $c for -me macros

2017-12-03 Thread Stephanie Björk
That seems very reasonable an explanation. Thank you. :) I didn't know that the problem had something to do with EQN's inline equation. It wasn't so obvious, but it makes sense nonetheless. I also find it funny if I ever need to talk about money in dollars: a dollar sign ($) is obviously needed

Re: [groff] Problems redefining macro $c for -me macros

2017-12-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Stephanie, > using the eqn "delim" request with dollars seems to start an inline > equation for ".de $c"! Yes, Steffen's right. The `$' in `$c' is looking to the preprocessor eqn as part of the inline equation delimeters set beforehand with `delim $$'. Moving the `.de $c' definition to befor

Re: [groff] Problems redefining macro $c for -me macros

2017-12-02 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Hey. Stephanie Björk wrote: |For quite a bit, I've been trying to redefine the .$c macro for the -me |macros. According to the reference manual, the macro package allows the |user to redefine how chapters look when they get printed, by redefining |that macro. | |Here's my redefinition. In

[groff] Problems redefining macro $c for -me macros

2017-12-02 Thread Stephanie Björk
For quite a bit, I've been trying to redefine the .$c macro for the -me macros. According to the reference manual, the macro package allows the user to redefine how chapters look when they get printed, by redefining that macro. Here's my redefinition. In the original file, I added no comments, b