On 4/12/12 7:05 PM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Louis,
In groff_ms, 2 column mode, how does one jump to the next column?
Saying a large amount of vertical space is needed with .ne works, though
there may be an official better way. Also, note how the top of the
second column ends up starting higher.
$ (seq 20; echo .PP; echo .2C; seq 42;
> echo .br; echo .ne 10i; seq 42 -1 1) |
> nroff -ms |
> cat -s
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 4 3 2 1
40 41 42
$
Cheers, Ralph.
That does the trick quite nicely. Thank You!
I also noticed that the second column does start higher even without the
.ne. And the first column seems to be short a line if we're at the
bottom of the page. Is this a bug?
Louis
