Re: [Groff] pic problem

[Larry Kollar]

> The only way I can account for all of A, B, C, D is that the logic
> of the loop
>
>   for n = a to b by c do {...}
>
> is:
>
>   [1] Set n = a.
>   [2] If a > b, break; else execute {...}
>   [3] increment a by c [default 1], and go to [2].
>
> which would presuppose that a <= b to start with, and c > 0.
> Not the logic one would expect!

Interesting... have I actually uncovered a bug?

Using Heinz's suggestion (box wid 1 ht 1 sprintf("%g", 32-n);)
worked, so for now I'll assume it's a case of "does it hurt when
you do that? then don't do that."

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