At 2025-03-14T04:52:59+0000, dvalin--- via GNU roff typesetting system discussion wrote: > The attached "sample.groff" does not flow together lines, following a > .PP, expected to compile a paragraph. Yet going the whole .RP trip, > for conformity's sake, in groff_primer.ms, *does* spuriously flow > together successive \n terminated lines *without* a .PP or .LP, and > that's even more useless, really. The spurious proliferation of bold > isn't much help either.
Why are you indenting the lines of your body text by one space? By doing so you are telling the formatter to interrupt filling, break the line, and indent it. > It seriously looks like the most productive way forward is to go back > to raw troff, or failing to find the secret sauce there, look for a > more robust utility - sufficiently documented to allow basic work. groff's documentation describes how filling and breaking work. ---snip--- 5.1.4 Breaking -------------- ... A line that begins with one or more spaces causes a break. The spaces are output at the beginning of the next line without being _adjusted_ (see below); however, this behavior can be modified (*note Leading Space Traps::). Again, macro packages may provide other methods of producing indented paragraphs. Trailing spaces on text lines are discarded.(1) (*note Breaking-Footnote-1::) ---end snip--- See Chapter 5 of groff's Texinfo manual. https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/groff.html.node/index.html Regards, Branden
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