Re: [Groff] a .text macro

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Ted,

> 1. ".text The .text macro prints an ellipsis
>     .text ..."
> 
> If you want to print something, why not just print it?  What's the
> point of prefacing it with ".text"?

IIRC, Bernd wants to indent the text inside a conditional statement.
He can't put spaces before it because that would have an effect.  Thus,
he wants .text which he can spell `.       text' to provide the indent.

Personally, it seems overkill.  Like having a #code in cpp for
prefixing all the lines inside an #if  :-)


Ralph.