On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:50:04AM -0400, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> Hi!
>
> It appears that comments are "counted" in non-fill mode. Is this by
> design for some reason?
>
> ----8<-------8<-------
> .nf
> text text text text text text text
> \".ps 14
> \".vs 15
> \"\v'-3.05'TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT
> \"\v'-3.05'\n[year]\(bu\n[mo]\(bu\n[dy]
> TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT
> \n[year]\(bu\n[mo]\(bu\n[dy]
>
> ---->8------->8-------
>
> remove the comments and the text pushes up.
>
> Louis
That's because the \" makes the _rest_ of the line a comment.
I have long used '\" as my comment header for full-line comments and that
works here. So does .\" .
Recently I've preferred groff's \# as the comment marker.
man 7 groff includes the following ...
\" Beginning of a comment. Everything up to the end of the line is
ignored.
\# Everything up to and including the next newline is ignored.
This is interpreted in copy mode. This is like \" except that
the terminating newline is ignored as well.
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