Re: vim :hardcopy equivalent

[Robert Thorsby]

Good morning Branden, Tadziu,

On 25/7/24 11:10, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2024-07-24T22:27:31+0200, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> > > > a "margin" measures an extent of whitespace (or "negative space"),
> > > > whereas the `sp` request positions the _text baseline_,
> >
> > The first is correct and the second incorrect for [g]troff.
>
> I will defend my formulation.  `sp` _does_ position the text baseline,
> period.
>
> Where, exactly, it puts it sometimes overturns the user's intuition.

I think you are both saying the same thing. However, to my tired eyes 
Tadziu's explanation makes more sense (ie, has more meaning to me) than 
Branden's.

It is perhaps worthwhile remembering the purpose of documentation. Man 
pages are not written for the uninformed; the are merely aides memoire 
for the cognoscenti, but lately they have been treated on this list as 
if written by fingers of fire upon tablets of stone (to completely mix 
metaphors).

Branden, might I suggest we leave it to the teacher. After all, that's 
his job. :-)

Cheers,
Robert
Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an 
improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.
  -- C.A.R. Hoare (describing the programming language Algol 60)