On 09/03/2006, at 4:20 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
I can't comment on -me since I've never used it.
Then I'd like to try the MS package. Could you post the description
of the header/footer macros please?
What information do you need which isn't covered in groff_ms.man and
groff.info?
I could find PT, BT neither in "man groff_ms" nor in "info groff".
Never mind, I'll rather try to figure out what the me header/footer
macros are doing.
Btw, the HT macro that Larry mentioned (HT, PT, BT) is not in
/usr/share/groff/1.18.1/tmac/s.tmac
The macro is called `.HD', and its definition is empty by default.
And it is already available in 1.18.1.
Based on the man pages I thought that .ps |xxx was setting the
height excactly/absolutely at xxx from the top. Perhaps a sentence
in "man" would be welcome to explain what really happens.
Please provide a patch.
Dunno how to make a patch. "info groff" says:
- Request: .sp [distance]
Space downwards DISTANCE. With no argument it advances 1 line. A
negative argument causes `gtroff' to move up the page the
specified distance. If the argument is preceded by a `|' then
`gtroff' moves that distance from the top of the page. This
request causes a line break. The default scaling indicator is `v'.
I'd like to suggest the following:
- Request: .sp [distance]
Space downwards DISTANCE. With no argument it advances 1 line. A
negative argument causes `gtroff' to move up the page the
specified distance. If the argument is preceded by a `|' then
`gtroff' moves that distance from the top of the page. This
request causes a line break, and that adds the current line
spacing to the space
you have just specified. The default scaling indicator is `v'.
For convenience you may wish to use the following macros to set
the height
of the next line at a given distance from the top- or the bottom
of the page:
.de y-from-top-down
. sp |\\$1-\\n[.v]u
..
.de y-from_bot-up
. sp |\\n[.p]u-\\$1-\\n[.v]u
..
e.g. ".y-from-bot-up 10c" means that the bottom of the next line
will be at 10
centimeres from the paper edge at the bottom.
Miklos
Werner
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