I'm trying to use .substring to remove the first character of a string,
leaving behind whatever follows, even if that is nothing (i.e. the
string had only one character).
.substring str 1
or
.length n2 "\*[str]
.nr n2 -1
.substring str 1 \n[n2]
(if n2 is omitted, it appears to defaul
On 3/19/21 7:32 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
It seems so. Would you be willing to file this report as a Savannah
ticket?
Done. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?60260
The following code operates correctly in all cases but warns about
"unbalanced .el request" if either the first or second condition is true
(with -w all).
The warnings do not happen if the "else" statements are wrapped in \{\
... \} but is this supposed to be necessary? The conditionals all
FWIW, .rd does work in Ubuntu 20.04
-Jim
$ echo ".rd" >/tmp/test.tr ; groff -Tascii /tmp/test.tr | cat -s
foo
bar
[^D]
foo bar
On 12/15/20 4:21 PM, Jim Avera wrote:
In Ubuntu 20.04 `groff --version` says "version 1.22.4", but seems to
ignore TZ...
I downloaded the source for 1.22.4 and built it, and TZ works as expected.
So Ubuntu (or Debian) must have somehow screwed with it. I'll submit
an Ub
At 2020-12-12T21:19:38-0800, Jim Avera wrote:
I suspect groff is always in UTC (but haven't confirmed).
No, that is not true, at least not in groff as provided by GNU. A
downstream distributor, like a GNU/Linux distribution, could alter
this.
Hmm. In Ubuntu 20.04 `groff --version`
The registers \n[mo] \n[dy] etc. seem to not respect the current time
zone, and so (for example) the \*(DT string provided by -mm shows the
wrong day for several hours each day.
I suspect groff is always in UTC (but haven't confirmed). Is this a
bug or intended?
How can I make mm's \*(DT s
groff -Tascii <<'EOF'
.nf
^^^
This instruction causes the empty line. Just try to insert three
`.br' lines to get three line breaks.
[snip]
Only use .nf while replaying a diversion (to avoid reformatting), not
while defining it.
Thanks for responding... I'm still not quite getting it, and hop
#!/bin/sh
# Question: Why is there a blank line in the output from the following?
groff -Tascii <<'EOF'
.nf
Before the box.
.box xxx
.br
.box
.xxx
After the box.
EOF
exit 0
=>
Before the box.
After the box.
I'm struggling to use .box and _always_ get a line of text in
the diversion if
