On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 10:21:35AM -0000, Ted Harding wrote: > On 04-Feb-11 09:48:42, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> The left-hand boxes in the figure contain "Filename" in Roman and > >> below it "hash.c" in Courier. While in the pic macros both have the > >> same x offset, "hash.c" is offset further to the right than > >> "Filename", when both were expected to be exactly left-aligned. > >> Note that changing \fC to \fR results in perfect alignment. > > > > The difference in formatting is due to the different width of spaces > > in the two fonts. You shouldn't write > > > > \fR foo \fP... > > \fC bar \fP... > > > > but rather > > > > \fRfoo\fP... > > \fCbar\fP... > > > > groff is not LaTeX :-) spaces after a `\fX' command are *not* > > suppressed. > > Werner > > And, if you really need a left-space to separate the text from > the left-hand edge of the box, and preserve alignment, use a > space in the same font (TR) both times -- like: > > "\s12\fR \fP\fChash.c\fP" at 1.062,8.721 ljust > "\s12\fR Filename\fP" at 1.062,9.096 ljust > > and *not* > > # "\s12\fC hash.c\fP" at 1.062,8.721 ljust > # "\s12\fR Filename\fP" at 1.062,9.096 ljust > > Hoping this helps!
Many thanks for the insight. In this specific case, the spaces were spurious due to fig2dev being buggy, but I'll definitely bear it in mind if I do need to do this sort of spacing alignment in the future. Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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