Re: [Groff] Werner's Margin Notes

[Peter Schaffter]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> 
> > One is a request, similar to .sp | , that advances from the top edge
> > of the page to the *baseline* on which type will sit.  groff's
> > present behaviour is to treat, for example,
> > 
> >     .sp |1i
> > 
> > as meaning "advance 1 inch from the top edge of the page to the top
> > of the tallest ascender of type at the current point size".  I'd
> > like to see something that advances to the baseline, not to the top
> > of the type.
> 
> The behavior implemented in groff is to ensure that when you
> say ".sp |1i" then no part of the line that will (eventually)
> be output will lie above this place.

<snip>

Thanks to everyone who went to the trouble to explain .sp, and to
come up with ways to implement the "carriage return/no linefeed"
idea.

My original post was more of a "how difficult would these be to
implement as groff requests?" query than a request for assistance.
I understand .sp, and have for some time included a "CF/no-LF" macro
(kludge) in the mom macros.  So it was actually a wish-list thought.
I gather the answer is "too difficult to warrant doing it."

But thanks again, anyway.

Cheers.

-- 
Peter Schaffter
  Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezVous Press, Canada)
  http://www.golden.net/~ptpi/theschumannproof.html