> Is this a bug or a well-considered feature? Apparently groff treats a space differently from "real" characters (like in TeX, where a space in the input represents glue in the output, not a printable character).
> Is there a way to save this structure? Yes. Do a ".tr ~" before, and then use ~ as the line repetition character. By the way, using \N'32' (usually the space character) as the repetition character works correctly with the ascii device but not the postscript device, apparently because groff/grops treats the remaining space put at the beginning of the repeated characters (see the Troff User's Manual) as a "stretched" space using the widthshow operator, then unfortunately also stretching the line repetition space as well, so that the second word gets shifted to well beyond the line length. (The ascii device doesn't bother with fractions of a character cell width.) That the repetition character is also a space seems to be correctly recognized when using "~" translated to space on output. _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
