>Number:         5294
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       me macros work neither with nor without -C option to groff
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people (Misc Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 14 16:35:01 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Anders Hjalmarsson
>Organization:
>Release:        NetBSD-current 19980414
>Environment:
System: NetBSD econahja.econ.gu.se 1.3E NetBSD 1.3E (ECONAHJA) #95: Tue Apr 14 11:11:57 CEST 1998 econahja@econahja.econ.gu.se:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ECONAHJA i386


>Description:
	The .+c macro is broken in groff because the definition of string
	register * is parsed incorrectly when groff handles long register
	names. It works in compatibility mode.
	In compatibility mode, however, the string register td is not set
	correcly because it uses *year and that does not work in
	compatibility mode.
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	Run the following through groff:
.+c Test
.pp
Today is \*(td

groff -Tascii  -me p.me >/dev/null gives:
p.me:1: a newline character is not allowed in an escape name
groff -Tascii -C -me p.me > /dev/null gives:
/usr/share/tmac/tmac.e:998: warning: numeric expression expected (got `e')

>Fix:
	The convert sed-script changes the definition of * as follows and
	that seems to work both in normal and compatibility mode.
	To fix the second problem, use a short register name. As I understand
	the me reference manual, *y is reserved by the implementation and
	it is not used elsewhere in me (and it is somewhat mnemonic).

	This diff is from tmac.e 1.4 
--- tmac.e.old	Wed Apr 15 00:55:50 1998
+++ tmac.e	Wed Apr 15 01:05:53 1998
@@ -961,7 +961,7 @@
 .\}
 .nr ?C 1
 .nr $f 1 1
-.ds * \\*[1\\*]\k*
+.ds * \\*[[]1\\*]\k*
 .if \\n(?R \
 .	pn 1
 .bp
@@ -1084,8 +1084,8 @@
 .if \n(dw=5 .ds dw Thursday
 .if \n(dw=6 .ds dw Friday
 .if \n(dw=7 .ds dw Saturday
-.nr *year \n(yr+1900
-.ds td \*(mo \n(dy, \n[*year]
+.nr *y \n(yr+1900
+.ds td \*(mo \n(dy, \n(*y
 .\"		*** PARAMETRIC INITIALIZATIONS ***
 .if (1m<0.1i)&(\nx!=0) \
 .	vs 9p			\" for 12-pitch DTC terminals
>Audit-Trail:
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