On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 1:44 PM Oliver Corff via GNU roff typesetting system discussion <groff@gnu.org> wrote: > In me, adding a footer with .fo 'arg left'arg center'arg right' works as > expected, with the blatantly obvious limitation that the elements of the > footer should not contain line breaks. > > However, I'd like to have information in two lines
The -me macro package does support a mechanism for defining multi-line titles (headers or footers). -me natively implements only single-line footers, but provides a documented hook to expand this as needed. On every page, the package calls a macro named .$f to print the footer, and the documentation says this macro "may be redefined to provide fancy (e.g., multi-line) [footers], but doing so loses the function of" some of -me's default title macros. (This wording is from an earlier version of the "me Reference Manual." Much of the manual has been rewritten starting in groff 1.23.0, and the information about .$f is, IMHO, now harder to find (being more dispersed) and less illuminating about its intended purpose.) This means that when defining your own .$f macro, you'll probably want to use the one in the -me package as a starting point and modify it to suit your needs. (Be aware, I find the -me code opaque and hard to follow. But some trial and error should get you where you want to go.) > Since the letters I want to create never have more than one page, I > could bypass the .fo mechanism. For your use case, this might be easier. But if you get a modified .$f macro working, it also gives you scalability in case you ever need more than one page.
