Miklos Somogyi wrote:
When one needs to break a long line, the continuation needs to
start at the beginning
of the next line. This spoils the readability of the file.
I would like to have something like this:
xxx yyyy wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww\X
wwwwwwwwww
where \X would cause groff to ignore the newline as well as the
leading spaces of the next line.
I think you want \: which inserts a zero-width space. You can put in
as many as you want at different points in the string where a break
would look good. So if you have, say, a long URL, you could format it
like this:
.CW "http://foo.example.org/\:some_directory/\:a_sub_dir/
\:sub_sub_dir/\:flowchart.png"
If the URL hits the margin, groff puts the break after the / closest
to the margin without going over.
Hope that helps,
-- Larry
