At 2017-04-27T04:00:29+0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:41:22AM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > At 2017-04-24T16:22:37+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > > .SM affect the next input line as it uses an input trap, `.it'. `\c' > > > doesn't make an input line continue to the next as far as input traps > > > are concerned; groff has .itc for that. So the .SM is over by the `)'. > > > > That's exactly the hack I wanted to make to the TP macro. I want to > > change its .it to an itc, thus: > > I have made a similar suggestion, see bug number #42907 (or look for > 'itc').
Thanks, Bjarni! I'm glad to know that this has occurred to someone else. > [...] > > > > .TP > > .B \-scale \c > > .IR xfac [, yfac ] > > Multiply the horizontal and vertical window size by > > .I xfac > > and > > .IR yfac , > > respectively. > > > > One can use the transparent line indicator (\!) to use macros in a label, > without changing the '.TP' macro: > > .TH testman 1 2017-04-DD > .TP > \!.B \-scale \c > .IR xfac [, yfac ] > Multiply the horizontal and vertical window size by > > or a little different output (with a necessary longer indent): > > .TH testman 1 2017-04-DD > .TP 20n > \!.B \-scale \c > \!.IR xfac [\c > \!.B ,\c > .IR yfac ] > Multiply the horizontal and vertical window size by I agree with Ingo that this looks worse, not better, but to me that suggests we should save our users the pain by implementing the TP/itc proposal. I further note for the benefit of those who did not go check out the bug[1], that your proposal is to consistent make _all_ of the man macros that set single-line traps switch to .itc from .it. At some point, if no one beats me to it, I'll make that change locally and measure the impact. Regards, Branden [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42907
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