Hi I am by no means an experienced user of groff. I thought I would give it a go as it may be useful for setting exams and test papers in my classroom. The exam class in latex is amazing but I am looking for greater control over what is happening on the page. I love the simplicity of unix and groff and was hoping to ask for some help with a macro which I could use for setting questions.
I was looking to insert a question Num and then without a break indent the question text. Similar to the IP command with a bullet, however, I wish to append an additional mark allocation to the end of this body text also without a break. See screenshot below. I have played around with page offset and line length. I also attempted to build an \hfill(latex like) macro which was way above my level of skill. I am starting to get my head around breaks and new lines of input and output but I am missing a key piece. I see it as something like this. 1. print a question number , do not break (eg 1. or 1) perhaps use a 'br or \c to enforce this non break 2. adjust margin using the .in +0.5i command or the .po and .ll command 3. fill text within these margins, do not break, kinda like a block quote 4. Adjust margin back, do not break, another \c or 'br 5. Append mark allocation (12 marks) 6. end macro Any help would be much appreciated. I would prefer ..read x part of the Ffing manual more carefully rather than paste in code I do not really understand. So pointers to sources to read or inaccuracies in my thinking would also be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your time. Ben
