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Peter Schaffter |
Subject: |
Leaders |
Date: |
Sat, 2 Sep 2023 16:19:08 -0400 |
I'm having trouble making sense of leader behaviour.
cat <<EOF | groff -Kutf8 -k -Tutf8
.pl 3v
.ta \n[.l]u
The château into which my valet had ventured to make forcible
entrance, rather than permit me, in my deparately wounded condition,
to pass a night in the open air\a
EOF
=> The château into which my valet had ventured to make forcible en‐
trance, rather than permit me, in my deparately wounded condi‐
tion, to pass a night in the open air
Notice that \a is not interpolating leaders. Replacing \a with
(ctrl-va) interpolates the leaders, but the output is wonky.
cat <<EOF | groff -Kutf8 -k -Tutf8
.pl 3v
.ta \n[.l]u
The château into which my valet had ventured to make forcible
entrance, rather than permit me, in my deparately wounded condition,
to pass a night in the open air
EOF
=> The château into which my valet had ventured to make forcible en‐
trance, rather than permit me, in my deparately wounded condi‐
tion, to pass a night in the open
air..................................
Leaving aside the wonky output for a moment, if the text is wrapped
in a macro, \a succeeds.
cat <<EOF | groff -Kutf8 -k -Tutf8
.pl 3v
.ta \n[.l]u
.de foo
The château into which my valet had ventured to make forcible
entrance, rather than permit me, in my deparately wounded condition,
to pass a night in the open air\a
..
\*[foo]
EOF
=> The château into which my valet had ventured to make forcible en‐
trance, rather than permit me, in my deparately wounded condi‐
tion, to pass a night in the open
air..................................
Question 1:
Is \a only interpreted in copy mode as this would suggest?
Question 2:
What is causing the erroneous justification of the third line?
There's more than enough room for "air" and some leader.
Question 3:
Why do the leaders not respect .ta \n[.l]u?
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Peter Schaffter
https://www.schaffter.ca
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