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Article #927Re: (ti)troff question - horizontal motion and drawing arguments
From: guy
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1986 22:19
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1986 22:19
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> Are you sure that your problem wasn't due to the fact that
>
> \h'8*\w' 'u'
> means \h'8m*\w' 'u' because the default unit for \h is ems?
Having played with that problem a bit, I'm almost certain that was the
problem.
> BTW, pic knows that strings like "doesn't" can't be delimited by
> quote, so it switches to \(ts (yes, you can use special
> characters as delimiters). If you really want it to die badly,
> use a string such as "it's \(ts, the sigma variant!"....
Not only that, but you can use control characters as delimiters; I think
"mm" (and maybe some other macro packages) use ^G (control-G, ASCII BEL,
'\007') as a delimiter. Why they chose \(ts, I dunno, unless they were
afraid that some macro package had usurped ^G, in which chase whey they
didn't choose ^A or some other control character, I dunno....
--
Guy Harris
{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
guy@sun.com (or guy@sun.arpa)
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