Re: [Groff] Unix roff vs. groff: .in in ms?

[Larry Kollar]

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Jonathan Lennox wrote:

> Unix roff's ms macro package seem to have no problem with allowing me to use
> the .in directive, and the ms paragraph indentation directive are applied
> relative to it.  Groff's ms, on the other hand, performs an absolute .in at
> every .LP directive, and so my global intentation gets wiped out.

That's correct. Many many years ago, I rewrote -ms to make it do what
I wanted at work. There's a tape moldering in a closet somewhere that 
has the code....


> What I'd like is for paragraph bodies to be indented by 3 characters in
> nroff output, but for section headers to still be left-justified.  (I'm
> generating Internet-Drafts.)

You could add 3n to the left margin, then *outdent* the headings:

        .\" top of file; \n(PP is the text indent setting
        .nr PP 3n
        .nr PO \n(PO+\n(PP
        ...
        .NH 1
        .ti -\n(PP
        Bingo Bango Bongo
        .LP
        And Irving...

Hope that helps. It shouldn't give your generator program too much grief.

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