Subject: Bug#1036826: po4a: Escape sequence \c encountered. This is not completely handled yet.

From: Helge Kreutzmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 May 2023 07:03:28 +0200

Hello Bjarni,
On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 04:12:07PM +0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 01:59:40PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> >[...]
> > .BI \-f " program-file\fR,\fP "\c
> > .BI \-\^\-file " program-file"
>   This is a wrong use of '\c', as its purpose is to join the output of
> two macros _without_ an intervening space character.
> 
>   So remove ' ' and '\c', changing
> 
> .BI \-f " program-file\fR,\fP "\c
> 
>   to
> 
> .BI \-f " program-file\fR,\fP"

Thanks, this make the build proceed, however, now it dies in the
following line:
.TP
.BI \-F " fs\fR, \fP"\c
.BI \-\^\-field-separator " fs"

    Escape sequence \c encountered. This is not completely handled yet.

Note that here there is no space before the "

Removing also this (and subsequent) "\c" makes the build proceed,
however, in other files "\c" exists as well and I'm vary of removing
the as well. 

I *think* the difference is that the failing lines have a ".BI" at the
beginnig. (And the non failing do not.) Does this make sense to you?

Thanks for your support!

Greetings

         Helge
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