Apologies for asking a rather esoteric question!
There are several troff commands which cause a line break, the most obvious
being ".br". When a line break occurs 2 things may happen:-
1. The current line is flushed, and
2. Position is moved to start of new line
I say "may" because if the cur
> .sp |2i
> 1.
> .br
> \X'ps:'\c
> .br
> 2.
>
> the output becomes:-
>
> 1.
>
> 2.
>
> The second .br now does its job because it thinks there is
> "something" in the current line, whereas in fact the \X command
> should just be passed through to the output device.
>
> My question is: Is this
On Sunday 06 Mar 2011 14:24:06 Deri James wrote:
> Does my analysis make sense? Is it desirable to make \X et al "transparent"
> so this effect won't happen. Will it break something else? Will I be able
> to work out how to "fix" it? (That last one is sort of rhetorical - you
> don't have to answe
>> Does my analysis make sense? Is it desirable to make \X et al "transparent"
>> so this effect won't happen. Will it break something else? Will I be able
>> to work out how to "fix" it? (That last one is sort of rhetorical - you
>> don't have to answer!!).
>>
>
> Many thanks to Werner who answ
