Re: [Groff] Jumping to the next column

[Louis Guillaume]

On 4/12/12 7:05 PM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Louis,
>
> > In groff_ms, 2 column mode, how does one jump to the next column?
>
> Saying a large amount of vertical space is needed with .ne works, though
> there may be an official better way.  Also, note how the top of the
> second column ends up starting higher.
>
>      $ (seq 20; echo .PP; echo .2C; seq 42;
>      >      echo .br; echo .ne 10i; seq 42 -1 1) |
>      >  nroff -ms |
>      >  cat -s
>
>      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
>
>                                      42  41  40 39 38 37 36 35 34
>      1  2  3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12    33 32 31 30 29 28 27  26  25
>      13 14 15 16 17 18 19  20  21    24  23  22 21 20 19 18 17 16
>      22  23  24 25 26 27 28 29 30    15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6  5
>      31 32 33 34 35 36 37  38  39    4 3 2 1
>      40 41 42
>
>      $
>
> Cheers, Ralph.


That does the trick quite nicely. Thank You!

I also noticed that the second column does start higher even without the 
.ne. And the first column seems to be short a line if we're at the 
bottom of the page. Is this a bug?

Louis