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[Groff] Confused over diversions
From: |
Clarke Echols |
Subject: |
[Groff] Confused over diversions |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:30:03 -0700 |
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Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) |
I am attempting to understand how diversions work, but
I am getting results that don't match the examples in the
info file. I put a little test file together based on the
example in the info file, but things get re-ordered so it
looks like the text in the line before the first
'.di xxx' line ("Before the diversion.") is also diverted.
What is going on here?
I am using groff 1.18.1 running in Cygwin on a Windows 98 machine.
Here is the source file and what I get (using Cygwin's nroff but
groff gives the same result, just in a different typeface).
Input file:
===========
> .ft C
> .sp |2i
> .ll 4.5i
> Before the diversion.
> .di xxx
> 1 Inside the diversion.
> 2 Inside the diversion.
> 3 Inside the diversion.
> 4 Inside the diversion.
> 5 Inside the diversion.
> 6 Inside the diversion.
> 7 Inside the diversion.
> 8 Inside the diversion.
> 9 Inside the diversion.
> .br
> .di
> After the diversion.
> .br
> Now we're going to do some other stuff here.
> .br
> And another line.
> .sp 1v
> Then a blank line plus a new line of text.
> .br
> .xxx
>
Printed result:
===============
>
> After the diversion.
> Now we're going to do some other stuff here.
> And another line.
>
> Then a blank line plus a new line of text.
> Before the diversion. 1 Inside the diver-
> sion. 2 Inside the diversion. 3 Inside the
> diversion. 4 Inside the diversion. 5 Inside
> the diversion. 6 Inside the diversion. 7
> Inside the diversion. 8 Inside the diver-
> sion. 9 Inside the diversion.
I have another question, but I'll save it for later.
Thanks,
Clarke
- [Groff] Confused over diversions,
Clarke Echols <=