Update of bug #61437 (project groff):
Status: None => Invalid
Assigned to: None => gbranden
Open/Closed: Open => Closed
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Follow-up Comment #2:
Thanks, Dave.
Yes, Bjarni's patch would indeed regress the documentation and make it
inaccurate.
I don't have a lengthy, boilerplate quotation from Dijkstra to patronizingly
offer. Instead I'll have to settle for a concrete illustration.
Input:
$ cat EXPERIMENTS/backslash-d-and-r.roff
A
.sp
B\v'1m'C\v'-0.5m'D
.sp 2v
E\dF\rG
troff output:
x T ps
x res 72000 1 1
x init
p1
x font 5 TR
f5
s10000
V12000
H72000
md
DFd
tA
n12000 0
V36000
H72000
tB
v10000
tC
V41000
tD
n12000 0
V72000
H72000
tE
v5000
tF
V67000
tG
n12000 0
x trailer
V792000
x stop
I trust the reader to generate PostScript from either of the above and further
confirm the difference in measurements by visual inspection.
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