Good morning Branden, Tadziu,
On 25/7/24 11:10, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
At 2024-07-24T22:27:31+0200, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
a "margin" measures an extent of whitespace (or "negative space"),
whereas the `sp` request positions the _text baseline_,
The first is correct and the second incorrect for [g]troff.
I will defend my formulation. `sp` _does_ position the text baseline,
period.
Where, exactly, it puts it sometimes overturns the user's intuition.
I think you are both saying the same thing. However, to my tired eyes
Tadziu's explanation makes more sense (ie, has more meaning to me) than
Branden's.
It is perhaps worthwhile remembering the purpose of documentation. Man
pages are not written for the uninformed; the are merely aides memoire
for the cognoscenti, but lately they have been treated on this list as
if written by fingers of fire upon tablets of stone (to completely mix
metaphors).
Branden, might I suggest we leave it to the teacher. After all, that's
his job. :-)
Cheers,
Robert
Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an
improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.
-- C.A.R. Hoare (describing the programming language Algol 60)
