Re: [Groff] Suggestion for images in groff/gpic, current state

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Unix V7 on a PDP-11 gives:
> 
> [...]

Thanks a lot for the detailed analysis.

> I'm quite hard pressed to believe that anyone has ever relied on the
> above behaviour, so I suggest leaving groff exactly as it is.  I can
> always ask around, though.

In groff, \n[.w] is never influenced by \w since \w processes its
argument in a separate dummy environment.

Similar to \n[.cdp] and \n[.cwd], \n[.w] returns the width of the last
character in the current environment.


  Werner