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Article #4345Re: troff question
From: Dik T. Winter
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1988 00:50
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1988 00:50
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In article <29400005@ccvaxa> hapke@ccvaxa.UUCP writes: > > First of all, you shouldn't need to worry about spaces. According to > Ossano's "NROFF/TROFF User's Manual", section 7.3, "the argument separator > [for macro arguments] is the space character, ..." Extra spaces seem to be > ignored in my tests. > Note however that in some cases it is fatal if there are spaces. E.g. the plain troff request .tl 'a'b'c' \" add some spaces gives unwanted results in nofill mode if the line after it starts with spaces (tables). With some versions of troff this results in a wrong horizontal position for the line. (This is a bug of course.) -- dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland INTERNET : dik@cwi.nl BITNET/EARN: dik@mcvax
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!dik From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: troff question Message-ID: <7490@boring.cwi.nl> Date: 17 Jan 88 00:50:55 GMT References: <1265@cg-atla.UUCP> <29400005@ccvaxa> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 17