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<title>unroff Programmer's Manual, footnotes</title>
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<h2><a name="section0">Footnotes</a></h2>
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<b><a name="footnote1">[1]</a></b>&#160;<tt> </tt>Although the result of specific event handlers defined for
strings is not rescanned, the handler for `\*' that is supplied by
<i>unroff
</i>to implement user-defined strings does rescan the contents of
a string when it is expanded.<tt> </tt>
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<b><a name="footnote2">[2]</a></b>&#160;<tt> </tt>While #f indicates ``standard output'' when assigned to
the current output stream, it is an error to call an input primitive
after #f has been assigned to the current
<i>input
</i>stream.<tt> </tt>
This may be considered a mis-feature; the current input and
output streams should be treated similarly with respect to
standard input and standard output.<tt> </tt>
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<b><a name="footnote3">[3]</a></b>&#160;<tt> </tt><i>stream-&gt;string
</i>is a misnomer, because the argument of the primitive is not
a stream, nor does the primitive actually
<i>convert
</i>a stream to a string as suggested by the `-&gt;' sign.<tt> </tt>
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<b><a name="footnote4">[4]</a></b>&#160;<tt> </tt>The primitive
<i>error-port
</i>should actually be provided by Elk proper to avoid having to
reinvent it for each extensible application.<tt> </tt>
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<b><a name="footnote5">[5]</a></b>&#160;<tt> </tt>The primitive
<i>parse-triple
</i>should probably return a proper list rather than an improper list.<tt> </tt>
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