Re: [PATCH 4/4] man/*.{1,1m,3x,5,7}: Soft-code ncurses version in `TH` call.

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi Thomas,

At 2024-03-16T17:02:30-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> So like Bartleby the Scrivener, I would prefer not to.

There's another possibility, but I'm not proud of it.

It is legal in *roff to use an ASCII DEL as the escape character.

I tested this and it works.  Where your input failed before, it succeeds
now.

Strictly, it doesn't solve the problem because DEL is legal in a macro
argument and in the text of a man(7) page header or footer, too.

But it's pretty darned unlikely to be used.

So I _could_ kick this problem into a corner where few will likely trip
over it, until I have my beloved string iteration request.

But I don't know whether to be proud of or nauseated by my cleverness.

Opinion?

Regards,
Branden

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