Hi Folks, A little query which I perhaps ought to know the answer to ...
Suppose you have the last line of a paragraph, and (formatted) it is nearly as long as the line-length. Normally, such a line which is shorter then the line-length would not be filled. But it can be aesthetically pleasing to stretch it slightly so as to really fill the line-length. 1. I'm not aware of a simple mechanism in groff to do this -- e.g. fill all lines whose minimum formatted length is within X of line-length. 2. Observation of some groff output suggests to me that groff may already do this (or maybe it was just a coincidence);[1] but if it does then I don't know how it does it nor how to control it. There is the "\p" sequence which forces a particular line to be stretched to fill, but this of course requires micro-editing by the user (what's new? :). [1] I have just written a 1-page document in which I noticed that two standalone lines, as output, and one final line of a paragraph, all seemed to exactly fill the line-length. I verified this using a duplicate of the lines terminated with "\p": at high magnification in ghostview the two ends are at exactly the same vertical position, to within ocular resolution! Any comments? -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 29-Aug-06 Time: 23:18:40 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff