Re: [Groff] conditionals inside a table?

[Mike Bianchi]

 u  stands for "basic unit" ...

  From https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/Measurements.html

        gtroff (like many other programs) requires numeric parameters to
        specify various measurements.  Most numeric parameters9 may have a
        measurement unit attached.  These units are specified as a single
        character that immediately follows the number or expression.  Each of
        these units are understood, by gtroff, to be a multiple of its basic
        unit.  So, whenever a different measurement unit is specified gtroff
        converts this into its basic units.  This basic unit, represented by a
        aCu', is a device dependent measurement, which is quite small, ranging
        from 1/75th to 1/72000th of an inch.  The values may be given as
        fractional numbers; however, fractional basic units are always rounded
        to integers.
                :
        ((the available units explained))

On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 11:40:33AM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> Thank you, that's what I was looking for.
> The only thing I don't understand is
> what is "u" in
> 
> lw(\n[w1]u)
> 
> tbl says:
> 
>        u,U    Move the corresponding column up one half-line.
> 
> which I don't need, but if I remove "u",
> the formatting becomes completely broken.
> 
> In my case I get good results with:
> 
> .ie n \{\
> .       nr LL 12.5i
> .       nr c1 1i
> .       nr c2 0.2i
> .       nr c3 1i
> .       nr c4 4i
> .       nr c5 3i\}
> .el \{\
> .       nr PS 9
> .       nr c1 0.5i
> .       nr c2 0.01i
> .       nr c3 0.5i
> .       nr c4 2.5i
> .       nr c5 1.5i\}
> .TS H
> expand,center;
> lw(\n[c1]u) lw(\n[c2]u) lw(\n[c3]u) lw(\n[c4]u) lw(\n[c5]u).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Anton
> 

-- 
 Mike Bianchi
 Foveal Systems

 973 822-2085

 address@hidden
 http://www.AutoAuditorium.com
 http://www.FovealMounts.com