Otavio Exel wrote:
Jorgen Grahn wrote:
Yes, the list is dominated by developers and/or power users, but that
should not discourage anyone from talking about more basic things.
in the hope that "more basic" includes "stupid".. here I go! :-))
This is not stupid! In fact this is not particularly obvious.
I'm printing the lyrics of a CD; I want it in 2-col; so I did
.2c
.nf
I wanted groff to *not* join short lines but break long lines;
Short lines were not joined, ok!
But groff did not break the long lines :-))
- Long lines in the first column invaded the second column
- Long lines in the second column were truncated
How do I get groff to split but don't join?
Doing it by hand. When you make a ".nf" request, you are effectively
telling groff to forget about its line-breaking algorithm and let you
decide by yourself, until you make a ".fi" request. A different approach
would be to break the lines by adding a ".br" request in a line after
where you want the line breaking to occur and let groff decide on the
longer lines.
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