On 12.03.25 23:31, Dave Kemper wrote: > Hi, and welcome to the world of groff!
Thank you. Each new utility is an adventure, even if more than a little perplexing at the outset. > Tackling your second issue first: ... > To get italics in basic troff, try this: > This is > .ft I > italic stuff > .ft > I hope. Thanks, that mostly works, but "I hope." is bumped onto a new line in the displayed postscript, rather than flowing in-line after italicisation ends. There must be a way to provide a little bit of page fitting, I figure? Branden was right, installing a full groff did provide -ms, but I see that: This is .I "italic stuff" , I hope. also bumps to a new line after the comma, in the displayed postscript. Trying this input to groff: .LP But does it flow lines? shows input newlines are preserved, so fitting the text to the output page also fails at present. Solving that should fix both problems. (I had imagined it would flow a paragraph until the next .PP or .LP, else it fails to typeset paragraphs?) More study. More coffee.
