On 05-Mar-10 14:32:27, Anton Shepelev wrote: > Hello all, > > I was experimenting with displays in groff (nroff > mode) and found found a problem. Whenever I begin > a new paragraph after a display, the vertical in- > dent after the display is twice the normal size. > Below is an example for the MS macro's .LD dis- > play: > > .LP > Test paragraph. The following display > will be indented normally > .LD > The display. The following paragraph > will be indented twice. > .DE > .LP > The paragraph. > > And here's the result: > > Test paragraph. The following display will be > indented normally > > The display. The following paragraph > will be indented twice. > > > The paragraph. > > A similar behaviour is found in ME's quotation > display (.(q. ... .)q). Am I doing something wrong? > > Thanks in advance, > Anton
If you are using ms macros, then there are two number registers to watch out for: \n[PD] "paragraph drop" and \n[DD] "display drop". \n[PD] defines how much vertical space will be inserted before starting a new paragraph. \n[DD] defines how much vertical space will be inserted before *and after* a display. So your .DE followed by .LP will insert \n[DD]+\n[PD] between the bottom of the display and the top of the new paragraph. Speaking for myself, I set all these drops to zero, so that there is no inserted spacing; if I need it, I insert it explicitly. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 05-Mar-10 Time: 19:51:57 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
