Hi Mikkel,

Mikkel Meinike Nielsen wrote on Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 05:20:20PM +0100:

> I will try to understand this. It's like some thought of environment
> variable??

Read the fantastic manual:

https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/Line-Layout.html#index-_002el
 for what \n(.l means in particular

https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/Registers.html#Registers 
for how registers work in general

So, not an environment variable, but a built-in roff number register.

Yours,
  Ingo

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