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From: | Alejandro López-Valencia |
Subject: | Re: [Groff] developers only? |
Date: | Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:53:04 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) |
Otavio Exel wrote:
Jorgen Grahn wrote:Yes, the list is dominated by developers and/or power users, but that should not discourage anyone from talking about more basic things.in the hope that "more basic" includes "stupid".. here I go! :-))
This is not stupid! In fact this is not particularly obvious.
Doing it by hand. When you make a ".nf" request, you are effectively telling groff to forget about its line-breaking algorithm and let you decide by yourself, until you make a ".fi" request. A different approach would be to break the lines by adding a ".br" request in a line after where you want the line breaking to occur and let groff decide on the longer lines.I'm printing the lyrics of a CD; I want it in 2-col; so I did .2c .nf I wanted groff to *not* join short lines but break long lines; Short lines were not joined, ok! But groff did not break the long lines :-)) - Long lines in the first column invaded the second column - Long lines in the second column were truncated How do I get groff to split but don't join?
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