URL:
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Summary: [mm]: semi-blocked letter style uses wrong,
hard-coded paragraph indentation
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Sun 18 Jun 2023 02:27:43 AM UTC
Category: Macro mm
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Feature change
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Follow-up Comments:
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Date: Sun 18 Jun 2023 02:27:43 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
This feature is a mess.
* The DWB 3.3 mm manual says that paragraphs of semi-blocked letters (`.LT
SB`) get a first-line indentation of 3 ens.
* groff_mm(7) says they get 5 ens.
* groff mm's actual implementation uses 5 _ems_ (twice as much as
documented).
Finally, I wonder why in the hell it didn't occur to anyone to just use the
amount stored in the `Pi` register, so the user could configure it.
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