> Attached is a small test example for -Tascii demonstrating > the setting of the earliest trap possible.
The manual says: The effect of ll, in, or ti is delayed, if a partially collected line exists, until after that line is output. Your trap is actually sprung, but it was triggered in fill-mode, and this usually means that whatever had already been gathered and did not fit on the line that was just output now constitutes the partially collected line. Thus, your .ll is delayed until the next line. One very crude way of preventing this is to empty the partially collected line into a diversion, set the new line length, and then replay the diversion into a "new" partially collected line, like so: .de trap .di xx .br .di .ll +8n .xx .. But diverting and rereading the diversion requires you to carefully set up indent and filling, otherwise bizarre spacing may result, so this might not be the optimum solution. If you know for sure that your label requires only one line-height, then it would be easier to start a partially collected line (e.g., including your list marker and the right-hand label) and then already set the new line length. This way you wouldn't have to futz around with traps at all. .ll 7c .in 1c .ds xx [label 1] .nr xx \n[.l]-\n[.i]-\w'\*[xx]' .ll 5c \Z'\h'-3n'1.'\c \Z'\h'\n[xx]u'\*[xx]'\c .ll 6.5c I'm going downtown, buy me a fourty-four. Yes, I am going downtown, buy me a fourty-four. Got bad news today, my baby don't want me no more. (Tested with -Tps, 10pt font size.)
