RE: [Groff] Blank line control.

[Ted Harding]

On 30-Jan-00 Eddie Maddox wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Eddie Maddox wrote:
> 
> Blank line control:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> .nf
> .na
> 0----------------
> 
> 1----------------
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Run that through Groff. You will notice the blank line stays put, even
> with the .nf, and no mention of .sp.
> 
> The blank lines at the tops of the output files are due to the above
> described phenomenon coming from blank lines in tmac.www that are
> there for human readability of tmac.www, but not intended for output. 
> 
> (And using \# in their place is called a "workaround". Not a "fix".)

For this sort of thing (and I regularly put blank lines in the source
for readability) the "blank line macro" '.blm' request is handy.

I set up the following:

  .\".\" Blank line macro does nothing (use ".blm" to reset default)
  .de no_blank_line_effect
  ..
  .blm no_blank_line_effect

I hope this helps! (By the way, Eddy, thanks for apologising about
the macro parameters thing, but it's OK -- for everyone, there's
a first time of encounter for everything; it's just that for some
of us it happened a long time ago ... ).

Ted.

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Date: 30-Jan-00                                       Time: 22:28:56
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