Re: [Groff] Suggestion for images in groff/gpic, current state

[Egil Kvaleberg]

On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 09:35, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> BUT: It
> does *not* hold the width of \w.

That is entirely correct. 

In the list of predefined registers, Ossanna specifically says .w is
"Width of previous character". 

The issue that might confuses matters is that there is also a reference
to the section describing \w. But the .w register has nothing to do with
\w.

> Instead, it probably contains the
> width of the last character in \w.

No - it contains the last character *printed*.

> which means that `\w' apparently gets a generic width of 0.5em,
> regardless of its contents.

As your example is written, you get the width of the last character
*printed*. Which in this case is the digit generated by the \w. Quite
consistent.

Egil
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