Happy New Year to everyone. I have a question. Surely it's something silly that I'm missing. I don't understand the logic in how centering (with .ad c or .ce) affects horizontal movements (\h). Let's take this example:
.ad c v .br \Z'\h'1i'v' .br \Z'\h'1i'Hello, World!' .br \h'1i'v .br \h'1i'Hello, World! After compiling it you'll get something like this: |<- 1 inch ->| |<-------------------------- .ll --------------------------->| v v Hello, World! v Hello, World! ->| |<- 1/2 inch Under the influence of centering (.ad c or .ce), unless you use \Z, the \h move goes only halfway. Replacing .ad c for .ad n in that same example you'll get the expected one inch displacement in both strings: |<- 1 inch ->| |<-------------------------- .ll --------------------------->| v v Hello, World! v Hello, World! Using .ad c I would expected this: |<- 1 inch ->| |<-------------------------- .ll --------------------------->| v v Hello, World! v Hello, World! Also, given what the documentation explains about \Z, I don't understand the effect it has in this example either. (If any part of the manual can help me understand this behavior, there's no need to waste your time explaining it, just point it out to me.) -- Walter