> > [...] the date will be broken along two (or maybe more) > > lines, but the .Company will start with the first line of > > the date.
> I'll try something along the lines of formatting both date and > company into separate diversions, and then printing those > diversions at the beginning of the description macro. Okay, here's a little update which does just that. It doesn't actually align the lines, but uses a mark/return scheme to print the two diversions side-by-side at the same vertical place, so the "date" and "company" lines will only align if you don't use non-default line heights. The macros must be called in the order "Date", "Company", "Desc", otherwise the diversions will not be properly begun and ended. .\" .\" ---------------------------------------------------------------- .po 3c .sp 3c .nr Ll 15c \" line length .nr Dw 3c \" date width .nr Cw .5c \" column separator width .nr Tw \n[Ll]u-\n[Dw]u-\n[Cw]u \" description text width .\" ---------------------------------------------------------------- .de Date .in 0 .ft 2 .ll \\n[Dw]u .ad l .di Dd .. .de Company .br .di .nr Dh \\n[dn] .in 0 .ft 3 .ll \\n[Tw]u .ad l .di Td .. .de Desc .br .di .if \\n[dn]>\\n[Dh] .nr Dh \\n[dn] .ne \\n[Dh]u+5v .sp 2 .ll \\n[Ll]u .in 0 .mk .nf .Dd .rt .in \\n[Dw]u+\\n[Cw]u .Td .rt .sp \\n[Dh]u .in 0 \v'-.5m'\D'l \\n[Ll]u 0' .in \\n[Dw]u+\\n[Cw]u .fi .ft 1 .ad b .. .de BL .in +2n .. .de LE .sp .2 .in -2n .. .de LI .sp .2 \Z'\h'-1.3n'\[bu]'\c .. .\" ---------------------------------------------------------------- .Date Since 05/2006 .Company My Company in Downtown which has a very long name and needs at least two lines to print (just for fun) .Desc This is the role I occupied .BL .LI Working on this .LI Working on that (the description of which is also rather long, so we can test what happens when it needs more than one line) .LI Achieved lots of things .LE But now, this is going to be a rather lengthy description of a task that I had which is so long that groff is complaining about the length of the line .Date 07/2003\[en]04/2006 .br (at least I think so) .Company Yet Another Company I Worked For .Desc The role I had there .BL .LI Some more tasks .LI You will get the idea .LE .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------
