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authorJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2018-10-30 15:54:29 -0700
committerJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2018-10-30 15:54:29 -0700
commit3305a018bc38a435a7bd006f9447d97ee3ea6868 (patch)
treec8002ce008816d5235e0709dce0f3772d9c4a123 /src/Text/Pandoc
parente874bc2c28fa8651446dd8b8fe6f43339b27de3a (diff)
downloadpandoc-3305a018bc38a435a7bd006f9447d97ee3ea6868.tar.gz
Roff reader: properly handle unknown backslash escapes.
They are treated as regular characters, according to groff 7. Cloess #5034.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/Text/Pandoc')
-rw-r--r--src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Roff.hs5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Roff.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Roff.hs
index a540cc39d..9e3315cb3 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Roff.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Roff.hs
@@ -284,7 +284,10 @@ escapeNormal = do
CopyMode -> char '\\'
NormalMode -> return '\\'
return [RoffStr "\\"]
- _ -> fail $ "Unknown escape character \\" ++ [c]
+ _ -> return [RoffStr [c]]
+ -- man 7 groff: "If a backslash is followed by a character that
+ -- does not constitute a defined escape sequence, the backslash
+ -- is silently ignored and the character maps to itself."
escIgnore :: PandocMonad m
=> Char