Re: [Groff] Filling the last line before new indent

[Miklos Somogyi]

Thanks Werner,

This is a useful thing, I am sure I'll find some applications for it.
I guess that the @ characters mark the begin/end of "anything", and  
that these markers could be any
characters not in "anything".

Miklos

On 18/12/2009, at 04:38 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > I'd like to try to adapt this to my macro but I can not find the
> > definition of Z anywhere.  Not in man groff, not in man grops.  What
> > does it do?
>
> There are two groff man pages, one for the binary (which is in
> section 1) and one for the language (in section 7).  Try
>
>  man 7 groff
>
> which gives
>
> \Z’anything’
>   Print <anything> and then restore the horizontal and vertical
>   position; <anything> may not contain tabs or leaders.
>
> `info groff' has the same text (in section `Page Motions') plus this
> example:
>
>     The following is an example of a strike-through macro:
>
>          .de ST
>          .nr ww \w'\\$1'
>          address@hidden'-.25m'\l'\\n[ww]u'@\\$1
>          ..
>          .
>          This is
>          .ST "a test"
>          an actual emergency!
>
>
>   Werner