Update of bug #64891 (project groff):
Severity: 3 - Normal => 2 - Minor
Status: None => Need Info
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Follow-up Comment #1:
[comment #0 original submission:]
> Subject: doc/groff.texi: not understanding a sentence in lines
> 16618-16619
>
> doc/groff.texi, line nr. 16618:
>
> The margin character is a property of the output line; the margin
> character last configured when the line is output controls. If the
>
> The second sentence "the margin character ...", I can't get a meaning
> from it.
That's not a sentence, it's a clause. You quoted only one sentence in full.
It means that multiple margin character requests might be issued while a
pending output line is being populated.
$ cat EXPERIMENTS/multiple-mc.roff
.ll 40n
Hello,
.mc +
.mc *
.mc |
world!
.pl \n(nlu
$ nroff EXPERIMENTS/multiple-mc.roff
Hello, world! |
Is it clear now?
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