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Re: [Groff] Re: verbatim text in mom?


From: Meg McRoberts
Subject: Re: [Groff] Re: verbatim text in mom?
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:19:03 -0800 (PST)

Does this handle \n correctly?  I've never used anything
but man and mm but I spent 20 years writting developer doc
in troff and \n is the bane of my existence!

If this actually works, I may have to learn mom!

meg

--- Peter Schaffter <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2004, Manfred Lotz wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 18:08:44 -0500, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004, Manfred Lotz wrote:
> > >> Does mom provide a possibility to set verbatim text?
> > > 
> > > Not sure I understand the question.  If you mean does mom have
> > > facilities for formatting cited text within a document, the
> > > answer's yes (see the QUOTE and BLOCKQUOTE sections of the docs).
> > > 
> > > If you mean something else, could you elucidate?  Thanks.
> > 
> > I mean like for instance having source code which will not be formatted in
> > any way. It should be in a non proportional font by default.
> 
> Yes, mom does this.  The macro for it is
> 
>     .QUOTE
>     line for line text of verbatim text
>     .QUOTE OFF
> 
> By default, mom sets the text in QUOTE in italic, or, if you're
> using PRINTSTYLE TYPEWRITE, underlined.  To get what you want (i.e.
> a roman, non-proportional font), do
> 
>     .QUOTE_FAMILY C \" Assuming you want courier
>     .QUOTE_FONT   R \" Assuming you want roman
> 
> before the first invocation of QUOTE.
> 
> See the document section "5.4.8 Quotes" for further explanation.
> 
> -- 
> Peter Schaffter
> 
> Author of _The Schumann Proof_, appearing fall, 2004
> (pub. RendezVous Press, Canada)
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