On 15-Mar-08 22:27:44, Clarke Echols wrote: > 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
Hi Clarke, I'm not seeing anything untoward (groff-1.18.1) in either you first or your second example. The first shows no line, and the secind shows a clean line. The only thing I'd say is that in the second example the line is neither quite nicely positioned, nor wuite the right length. One point to watch for: The \D't 2000' will generate a horiontal movement of 2000u (2p). I prefer to wrap things in \Z'...', and also to use the \w'...' escape, when doing this sort of thing. In the case of your example: .ce 1 \s+6\f(HBAre You \ \Z'\D't 2000''\ \Z'\v'2.5p'\D'l \w'\f[HBI]Sure\fP'u 0'\v'-2.5p''\ \f[HBI]Sure\fP You're Getting Maximum Value\s0 [note the "\" to enable line-continuation] looks fine to me! Though I might prefer to move the line slightly to the right: .ce 1 \s+6\f(HBAre You \ \Z'\D't 2000''\ \Z'\v'2.5p'\h'1p'\D'l \w'\f[HBI]Sure\fP'u 0'\v'-2.5p''\ \f[HBI]Sure\fP You're Getting Maximum Value\s0 Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 15-Mar-08 Time: 23:13:17 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
