Ted,
What a scholarly expose! This should be part of the manual.
I've introduced .rchar and things are working nicely.
Thank you very much,
Miklos
On 29/11/2006, at 9:40 PM, (Ted Harding) wrote:
On 29-Nov-06 Miklos Somogyi wrote:
Ted,
Your solution and Tadziu's are rather similar and
If you are operating in no-fill mode, why not use .tc to define the
tab character? You can then set up the left-right justification and
troff/groff replaces a tab character between left-hand and right-hand
text with a multiple series of the character defined by .tc. You
have to use .ta
On 28-Nov-06 Miklos Somogyi wrote:
Folks,
I used this macro for inserting dots between left- and right aligned
test, a la text1 . text2:
.de iD
\\$1 \\kx\\l'(\\n(.lu-\\nxu-\w'\\$2 'u).' \\$2
..
It worked in troff, it works in groff.
I had an insert space version of this
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
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).
I consider it a bug. There is no technical reason to disallow a space
there.
Clarke,
Thank you, but I think that left- and right alignment works without
referring to tabs in any way.
The reason I am interested in this `line drawing' scheme is that, if it
works, it can be used
in many other cases as well.
Thanks,
Miklos
On 29/11/2006, at 3:25 AM, Clarke Echols
Tadziu,
Thank you, it's working. Just one question: how do you switch-off `tr
~'?
For me `tr ~~' does the job, but is `tr' smart enough not to look for
`~'
and replace it with `~'?
Not a problemi if it is looking, I'm just curious.
Thanks,
Miklos
On 29/11/2006, at 7:11 AM, Tadziu Hoffmann
