Hey, Yves.
On Sat, Aug 11, 2018, Yves Cloutier wrote:
> The other part to this answer is that I like to know how things
> work. So lthis is partially me learning how to typeset with groff,
> without relying on macros.
You will still need to write macros to handle bottom-of-page traps
unless you
Hello Ingo, thanks for the tips, comments and questions.
No there is no parsing involved. I'm using the red programming language, a
derivative of rebol. This language doesn't use parentheses for function
calls.
title {...}
p {...}
blockquote {..}
are functions I created that take a string as an
Hi Yves,
Yves Cloutier wrote on Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 11:32:57AM -0400:
> .br
> .sp
That is redundant. The .sp request already implies .br, see:
https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/Manipulating-Spacing.html#index-sp
> .ll -5
> .in +3
> .ti -1
For .in and .ti, the default scalin
Ralph, Ted,
Thank you both for your help! Right after sending in my question I found
something helpful in the Troff User Manual you mention.
A bit different than your solution but seems to work, at least with my
test. It goes something like this:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci
Hi Yves,
> What approach would I take? Is this something that can be done with
> tabs?
The tutorial in CSTR 54, logical page `- 32 -', defines the `lp'
labelled paragraph macro that uses tabs. https://troff.org/54.pdf
If you're starting troff, that slim document is well worthy of repeated
carefu
