Hi, Dave!
At 2021-08-11T20:30:07-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On 8/9/21, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> >
> > \v'-.5'\s-4\&2\s0\v'.5'
> >
> > The use of \&, unnecessary here as far as I know, suggests to me that
> > someone got burned by the magic syntax of the \s escape sequence.
>
> The \& is
> .ds { \v'-.9m\s'\En[.s]*7u/10u'+.7m'
Wow. I didn't know that was possible. You're interrupting the
calculation of the amount of vertical movement to set the point
size, and then use the new value (as ems) in the interrupted
calculation...
But the result is correct, it's equivalent to
* On 2021 11 Aug 20:30 -0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On 8/9/21, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> >
> > \v'-.5'\s-4\&2\s0\v'.5'
> >
> > The use of \&, unnecessary here as far as I know, suggests to me that
> > someone got burned by the magic syntax of the \s escape sequence.
>
> The \& is
On 8/9/21, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> \v'-.5'\s-4\&2\s0\v'.5'
>
> The use of \&, unnecessary here as far as I know, suggests to me that
> someone got burned by the magic syntax of the \s escape sequence.
The \& is unnecessary for correct machine parsing, but it surely aids
human eyes,
* On 2021 09 Aug 10:05 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> It's interesting to me that the following two are not equivalent.
>
> foo\v'-.5'\s-4bar\s0\v'.5'
> foo\u\s-4bar\s0\d
>
> Our use of the term "half-line motion" might require some clarification.
I see the groff.7.man file in
While we're on the subject of footnote markers/superscripts, including the
-me macros: I have always disliked the way that that macro set added line
spacing to accommodate the footnote marker. Maybe that was necessary in
older output devices; but it looks very ugly in modern laser
printed output.
At 2021-08-09T09:11:50-0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> So far I've not read much of the book[1] closely. I have skimmed
> through Chapter 4 and on page 4-117 (page 247 of the PDF) is a table
> of the available MM strings. Given that I've seen example dates from
> 1987/88, this list may be quite
* On 2021 09 Aug 07:12 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi, Nate!
Good morning, Branden.
> I took it out as part of commit 4f3b1e33[1], 13 July (just a few weeks
> ago). I was revising the material that had to do with the `ISODATE`
> macro and `Iso` register, both of which are groff
Hi, Nate!
At 2021-08-09T03:12:42-0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> What I have been able to ascertain is that MM was an evolution and
> extension of MS by Bell Labs as both originated there. Also, I think
> that either MS or MM is relatively easy to learn for anyone versed in
> MAN, though there are
