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Article #454Re: Help needed with ditroff/mm macros
From: Adrian Pell
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 1985 19:18
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 1985 19:18
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>Page numbers with lots of leading zeros are, as I recall, obtainable
>by giving a nonsense code when specifying the format in which a number
>register should be printed.
The problem is that early versions of nroff (pre System III), which
includes V7 and ditroff, don't have a \g escape to return the current
format of a number register, suitable for later feeding to a .af request.
I had this problem on our V7 system with nroff, and it was solved
by fitting the code for this escape out of the SysIII source. Now
if you haven't got the SysIII source ...
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Adrian Pell ({mcvax,edcaad}!ukc!ru-cs44!adrian)
Computer Science Dept.
University of Reading
UK
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ru-cs44.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!mcvax!ukc!ru-cs44!adrian From: adrian@ru-cs44.UUCP (Adrian Pell) Newsgroups: net.text Subject: Re: Help needed with ditroff/mm macros Message-ID: <906@ru-cs44.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 14:18:28 EST Article-I.D.: ru-cs44.906 Posted: Mon Feb 11 14:18:28 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 19-Feb-85 06:36:53 EST References: <4790@ukc.UUCP> <5001@utzoo.UUCP> Reply-To: adrian@ru-cs44.UUCP (Adrian Pell) Organization: Reading Univ. UK. Lines: 16 Summary: Missing \g escape in ditroff