Re: [Groff] Is setting the PO register a page trap?

[Carsten Kunze]

 Hi Dorai,

> Thanks Ralph.  I guess +x would have the same "accumulating" behavior as -x.
> Curious there seems to be no way to represent a negative literal number the
> way one can specify a nonnegative one, i.e., a negative number just for
> itself, not as a decrement.
> I was able to solve my particular problem with
> .am @init.nr PO -.25i..
> PO is defined by the time is @init is called, so this works.
> Thanks again,--dorai 

you can specify a negative number by e.g. prepending a 0 (i.e. 0-.25i).

Carsten