At 2023-06-03T15:04:15+0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 02:52:02AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > I'll be pushing a commit to comment out this incorrect statement, > > rather than deleting it, because I think perhaps we should change > > this behavior. [...] > The false statement in "doc/groff.texi" should be removed.
I've already commented it out as I said I would. It can confuse no one like that.[1] > If an indent is there, it affects finding the middle of a text in the > output line. ...yes...who claimed otherwise? > One example does not proof anything. This statement suggests to me an unfamiliarity with existence proofs and counterexamples. Were he alive, I would advise you not to place bets against Karl Weierstrass. > Expectations are imaginations. Brains are, among other things, simulation engines. Your terse utterances put me in mind of what Chomsky said of postmodernist philosophy: "what I understand is largely [either] truism or error."[2] > #### > > .nr length \n(.lu/1n > Line length is \n[length]n > .br > .nr QQ 9*\w'0'u > 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 > \h'\n(QQu'1\h'\n(QQu'2\h'\n(QQu'3\h'\n(QQu'4\h'\n(QQu'5\h'\n(QQu'6\h'\n(QQu'7\h'\n(QQu'8 > .br > .ce 4 > foo > .\".ti -3n > barbar > .ti 6n > baz > qux > .pl \n(nlu > > Result: > > troff:../testen/prof.temp.indent:5: warning [p 1, 0.2i]: cannot break line > troff:../testen/prof.temp.indent:6: warning [p 1, 0.3i]: cannot break line > > Line length is 65n > 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 > 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 > 8 > foo > barbar > baz > qux > > #### What material fact does the foregoing illustrate that my much shorter example in https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-05/msg00079.html does not? > Ignoring indent does not make sense. What is your use case for employing temporary indentation while centering? Regards, Branden [1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/doc/groff.texi?id=75b4128edc1009b3d6f0c41e482cba5611251ae8 [2] https://chomsky.info/1995____02/
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