Hi John,
> > > If you use .in with a register value you have to set the unit to
> > > u,
>
> Hrm, well, adding the `u` suffix to `.in` *did* change the
> indentation, but it's suddenly too small.
Carsten means if the register holds a value that's already been
converted to base units then append a u. If it holds inches, for
example, then append an i.
$ nroff | grep .
.nr n 3
foo
.br
.in \nni
bar
foo
bar
$
> the code may be found here
> <https://github.com/Alhadis/AddressPrinter>.
A smaller test case would be better for those of us pressed for time!
:-)
> `make template && make all`.
Or `make template all'. ;-)
> The \n[.o] register is only giving me 72000, which isn't very helpful
> (I'm assuming that's supposed to reflect the page's horizontal
> dimensions...)
No, see section 3 of CSTR 54 and
info groff | less +/'Request: .po \[offset]'
72,000 looks to be an inch worth of millipoints given a PostScript
output device.
Cheers, Ralph.
