On 5/5/23, G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > We seem to have an ugly bit of non-orthogonality in this area. > > quantity register access > > extra pre-vertical line spacing n/a > vertical (line) spacing .v > extra post-vertical line spacing .a > post-vertical line spacing .pvs
If the manual is to be taken literally, the situation is uglier than that. "The 'extra post-vertical line space'... is the maximum value of all '\x' escapes with a positive argument," but the .a register only tells you "the most recent (non-negative) extra vertical line space." So by my reading, ... \x'0.3' ... \x'0.6' ... \x'0.3' ... would space down an extra 0.6v, but .a would contain 0.3v. Is this a real-world problem? I have no idea.
