At 2020-03-31T18:17:52+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > This is not acceptable. My muscles know to write \s14foo\s0 bar and > don't like changing, my eyes know how to read it.
What text editor do you use? > I don't see why you should force this side issue on us when the topic > is whether \s42foo\s0 sets the point size to 42. It doesn't. Groff doesn't (before or after my patch). Heirloom troff doesn't: $ cd ~/heirloom && printf '\\s39A' | ./bin/troff >| 39 \ && printf '\\s40A' | ./bin/troff >| 40 && diff -u 39 40 --- 39 2020-04-01 04:40:31.486451241 +1100 +++ 40 2020-04-01 04:40:31.502451234 +1100 @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ x font 8 HX /home/branden/heirloom/lib/doctools/font/devps/HX.afm 4 x font 9 S1 /home/branden/heirloom/lib/doctools/font/devps/S1.afm 516 x font 10 S /home/branden/heirloom/lib/doctools/font/devps/S.afm 1028 -s-23 39 +s4 f1 x X LC_CTYPE en_US.UTF-8 H72000 Regards, Branden
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