Hi, Werner wrote, > > > Curious there seems to be no way to represent a negative literal > > > number the way one can specify a nonnegative one, i.e., a negative > > > number just for itself, not as a decrement. > > > > you can specify a negative number by e.g. prepending a 0 (i.e. > > 0-.25i). > > Another solution is to include the whole value in parentheses, e.g. > > .nr PO (-.25i)
Both of which were on the http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/Setting-Registers.html page I linked to. :-) Cheers, Ralph.
