"G. Branden Robinson" writes:
>> What about \fC\f[CR]Lorem\fP\fP?
>
> Unreliable. As onf pointed out, not only is the font selection not
> backed up by a stack, but it the identity of "the previous font" is not
> well-defined if you attempt to select a non-existent font (as either or
> both of `
Happy New Year to everyone.
I have a question. Surely it's something silly that I'm missing. I
don't understand the logic in how centering (with .ad c or .ce) affects
horizontal movements (\h). Let's take this example:
.ad c
v
.br
\Z'\h'1i'v'
.br
\Z'\h'1i'Hello, World!'
.br
\h'1i'v
.br
\h'1i'H
Hi Walter,
On Sat Jan 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM CET, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
> I have a question. Surely it's something silly that I'm missing. I
> don't understand the logic in how centering (with .ad c or .ce) affects
> horizontal movements (\h). Let's take this example:
>
> .ad c
> v
> .
On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 03:10:28PM +0100, onf wrote:
[...]
> TL;DR: When centering, horizontal motions become part of the line and
>centered with it.
This is what I didn't understand. Thank you for your detailed
explanation! (Don't get me wrong, I cut off the rest of your
explanation so
On Sat Jan 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM CET, onf wrote:
> [...]
> > \Z'123456789'
> > .rj
> > 123456789
>
> $ groff -Tutf8 | sed "s/ /'/g"
> 123456789
> '''123456789
>
> Huh. I get what you meant by "right-justified against what?" now.
> It might just be
On Sat Jan 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM CET, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
> [...] (Don't get me wrong, I cut off the rest of your
> explanation so the post doesn't get too long, as I plan to add another
> example below.)
That's a completely normal part of mailing list etiquette, no worries.
> > When u
On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 08:17:11PM +0100, onf wrote:
> On Sat Jan 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM CET, onf wrote:
> > [...]
> > > \Z'123456789'
> > > .rj
> > > 123456789
> >
> > $ groff -Tutf8 | sed "s/ /'/g"
> > 123456789
> > '''123456789
> >
> > Huh. I ge
On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 08:09:56PM +0100, onf wrote:
> By the way, the way gpic does it is by emitting PostScript instructions
> to the grops postprocessor. See gropdf(1):
> gropdf understands some of the device control commands supported by
> grops(1).
>
> \X'ps: exec gsave currentpoint 2 c
