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From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
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Subject: mdoc problem: using .Pa with .Ar
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Hi,

Please Cc: me when replying.


I'm writting a manual page in which I need to write something like


.Pa Ar dir Ns /.somerc


I mean, dir/.somerc is a pathname, dir is an argument.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work as I expected and .Pa works as if
it had no argument (outputs ~).  Moreover, I'm not sure the .Ar
macro does only eat dir.

Any clue would be welcome, I'm quote new to the mdoc(7) format.

Thank you.
Regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >