Re: [Groff] UTP: Se macro

[Jon Snader]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 11:42:20AM -0500, Michael Hobgood wrote:
> Jon,
>       I'm not sure if this is a bug
> or the way the .Se macro was intended to
> operate.  If you put a construct such as
> 
> .Se "Have fun with the \fCutp\fP macros"
> 
> everything works fine.
> But, this construct, will cause the following
> text to retain the font specified for the last
> word in the string to .Se.
> 
> 
> .Se "Typesetting with \fCtbl\fP"
> 
> Larry caught this when I sent him chapter 8.
> He just added an .LP before the following
> text to correct it, so, the cure is easy.
> 

Hmmm.  I don't see why that's happening.  It's probably because
Se calls another macro (passing the second argument quoted) to
do the actual formatting.  I'll either figure it
out or add an LP 0 to the end of the Se macro.  In the mean time,
if you just add an LP 0 right after the call to Se, everything
will work correctly.  Note that the LP 0 will reset the paragraph
parameters, but not space down, so it's best to use it instead of
just an LP.  Also using LP 0 instead of LP means that the extra
LP 0, if I add it, will not cause any harm.

Jon Snader