On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 19:16:02 +0100 (BST)
(Ted Harding) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Follow-up: I have found the source of your pronblem (the one
> to do with vertical displacement). When a table is oujtput using
> the .TS macro, a "display drop" vertical spacing is added (and
> the same happens for .EQ using eqn, and in other contexts).
>
> You can get rid of this (in ms macros) by setting the "display
> drop" to zero.
Many thanks, Ted. Setting DD to zero did indeed get it closer; I also
had to set PD to zero.
DD isn't mentioned afaik in groff_ms or in usd-17. That leads me with
two questions:
1. Do you find the best way to really understand -ms is to read the
macros? I keep hoping just to rely on the documentation.
2. Is there a good/accepted convention for naming user-defined
registers? I used
.nr DD1 \n(DD
...
.nr DD \n[DD1]
on the theory that /usr/share/tmac/ms.tmac is unlikely to use register
names longer than 2 letters.
--jkl
