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Re: [Groff] Re: begin page blues
From: |
Miklos Somogyi |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Re: begin page blues |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:24:23 +1100 |
On 19/02/2006, at 8:52 AM, (Ted Harding) wrote:
On 18-Feb-06 Miklos Somogyi wrote:
[...]
Here the red Hello2 Hello3 are one space to the right of the black
ones.
Does anyone know the how and why of this space?
[...]
Yes -- it comes from the LF in the input that follows
\X'ps: exec 1 0 0 setrgbcolor'
Ted, I'm sorry that I haven't made myself clear.
My concern is that the \Y[...] way of injecting PS into groff
interferes with the text.
In SGI-troff with Adobe's prologue they were absolutely independent,
linked only via a CP so, foolishly I expected that 'ps: ..' would not
generate anything but graphics.
Perhaps later I'll find some use for groff's different way of doing it.
Now I'd like a quick transition 'cause I have a lot
of PS inserts and there's something about old dogs & new tricks.
You suggested a backslash, Werner suggested \c and they work if the \X
thing is part of the text.
However, \Y[...] followed by a call to a macro is a different cattle of
fish:
.bp
\Y[draw-a-grid]
.macro-starting-with-an-indent
Here I can't use \, \c does not work, the macro inherits a space and
indent drops a line.
Currently I hide the \Y in a macro, followed by .sp -1 and use the
macro instead of \Y in the main text.
It's not a tragedy, just finding a hiding place for every PS insert, if
indeed this is the only to do it, is quite a bit
of inconvenience.
Thanks to you and Werner,
Miklos
- [Groff] begin page blues, Miklos Somogyi, 2006/02/18
- [Groff] Re: begin page blues, Miklos Somogyi, 2006/02/18
- RE: [Groff] Re: begin page blues, Ted Harding, 2006/02/18
- Re: [Groff] Re: begin page blues,
Miklos Somogyi <=
- Re: [Groff] Re: begin page blues, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/02/20
- Re: [Groff] Re: begin page blues, Miklos Somogyi, 2006/02/21
- Re: [Groff] Re: begin page blues, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/02/21
- Re: [Groff] Re: begin page blues, Miklos Somogyi, 2006/02/21
- Re: [Groff] Re: begin page blues, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/02/21
- Re: [Groff] Re: begin page blues, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/02/22
- Re: [Groff] Re: begin page blues, Miklos Somogyi, 2006/02/23
- Re: [Groff] Re: begin page blues, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/02/23
- Re: [Groff] Re: begin page blues, Miklos Somogyi, 2006/02/23
- Re: [Groff] Re: begin page blues, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/02/24