Re: [Groff] Converting basic units to inches in PostScript

[John Gardner]

Hey guys,

Hrm, well, adding the `u` suffix to `.in` *did* change the indentation, but
it's suddenly too small.

If you're curious, the code may be found here
<https://github.com/Alhadis/AddressPrinter>. Be aware this was written
strictly as a personal challenge; no macros or GNU extensions were used (I
enjoy flagellating myself with difficult tasks for some reason...). You can
test its output with `make template && make all`.

Is there any way to gauge the dimensions of the output from within troff?
The \n[.o] register is only giving me 72000, which isn't very helpful (I'm
assuming that's supposed to reflect the page's horizontal dimensions...)

On 3 August 2016 at 22:14, Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Carsten wrote:
> > If you use .in with a register value you have to set the unit to u,
> > e.g.:
> >     .in \n(dlu
> > else the default unit of .in is multiplied with the dl register value.
>
> Also, see the Notes column for .in on page 4 of CSTR 54,
> http://troff.org/54.pdf, and sections 1.3 and 1.4.
>
> Cheers, Ralph.
>
>