I'm working on a document with a headline:
Are You Sure You're Getting Maximum Value
where the line is set in Helvetica bold with "Sure" set in
HB italic. I want to underline the word "Sure", but I'm getting
strange behavior from what I thought should be a legitimate approach.
Conditions are:
.ll 6.5i
.ps 12
.vs 14
My strategy was to set the font to HB, set the first two words, then
switch to HBI for word "Sure". After setting that word and going
back to HB, I then do a horizontal move left 0.55i, move down
2.5p, use \D escape to draw a line with thickness 2000 units, .55i
in length, back up 2.5p, and do the rest of the line.
But I get a strange behavior. groff draws the line as I want,
but it somehow injects a line about 30 points long (.41 inch long),
even if I disable the line drawing \D escape sequence.
The first line below is what I used to kill the line draw, but
it still gives a short line. The second line gives me what I want,
but I still have the short line and don't have a clue what's causing
it. I'm running groff 1.18.1 under cygwin. The two lines lie directly
one on top of the other.
[EOL] is a space character in each line that was followed with an
end-of-line for the email program to keep the lines readable. In the
actual file, it's all one line with the same characters except [EOL].
> .ce1
> \s+6\f(HBAre You \f[HBI]Sure\fP\h'-0.55i'\v'2.5p'\D't [EOL]
> 2000'\h'.55i'\v'-2.5p' You're Getting Maximum Value
> .ce 1
> \s+6\f(HBAre You \f[HBI]Sure\fP\h'-0.55i'\v'2.5p'\D't [EOL]
> 2000'\D'l .55i 0'\v'-2.5p' You're Getting Maximum Value
Do any of you groff geniuses have a clue about what's going on
here? I don't see what could be causing it. I can live with
what I have, but I'd rather drop the line 3p instead of 2.5
which is where groff puts it, no matter what the \v escape
tells it to do.
Thanks,
Clarke
