On 11/14/14, Dale Snell <ddsn...@frontier.com> wrote: > I have in my personal Groff macros: > > .char \[:] \^:\|\: \& > > for an old-fasioned colon.
That doesn't seem to do what you would presumably want when the colon ends a line: .ps 36 .vs 36 .char \[:] \^:\|\: x x x x x x x x x x x x x x\[:] x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x\[:] x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x The first colon looks fine, but the second, which ends up at the end of a line, creates a misalignment. I'm not even sure how you'd fix that; .char defines a new glyph, which I don't think is internally breakable. (The \: in your definition, then, would seem to have no effect.)
