Thankfully, it looks like I may have goofed and picked the wrong printout while
measuring lengths.
Everything seems to work fine now! Sorry about the false alarm!
--d
On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 11:11 PM, Doug McIlroy <d...@cs.dartmouth.edu>
wrote:
> If I set ?registers PO and LL and also set PS and VS, the values of
> PO and LL seem to revert to the default values.
As you expected, the order of setting doesn't matter.
I don't see anything strange in the run below. where the stderr
output follows the closing '!'.
groff -ms <<'!' >/dev/null
.nr LL 100000u
.nr PO 1000u
.nr PS 12
.nr VS 10000u
.TL
Title
.tm \n[LL]
.tm \n[PO]
.tm \n[PS]
.tm \n[VS]
.LP
.tm \n[LL]
.tm \n[PO]
.tm \n[PS]
.tm \n[VS]
!
100000
1000
12
10000
100000
1000
12
10000
.TL and .LP are where all the setup action happens
Can you give a short example of what seems to go wrong?
