I get the same result; and then tried variants with .LT instead of .MT, and the signature is not produced at all!
On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 9:44 AM Andreas Eder <a_eder_...@web.de> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm a newcomer to roff and have just begun reading the book 'UNIX > Document Processing and Typesetting'. There is an example of a letter in > there thay I enclose here, necause it shows the poblem: > > .ND "January 1, 1999" > .AU "Dr. Gray Hound" > .AT "Project Leader" > .MT 5 > .DS > Our Reference: prog/001 > Your Reference: xyz/100 > .SP 4 > Mr. William Smith > Chief Advisor > Consult the Consultants > Penny House > Graceland > .DE > .SP 3 > Dear Mr. Smith > .SP 2 > .ce > Recruitment of a Programmer > .fi > .SP 2 > .P > With reference to our discussion over lunch at the West Gate Club, > the requirements of the programmer are as follows: > .P > The programmer should be conversant in all computer programming languages > and be ready to develop any kind of software using different computers. > The programmer must also be willing to do administrative and paperwork > to get his/her pay. > .P > Although the requirements may seem to be unusual, I am sure > that with your company's expertise in head hunting, finding a > suitable person for the above-mentioned position will be a trivial matter. > .P > Hope to hear from you soon. > .FC Sincerely yours > .SG > > Now the problem is that groff doesn't show the author's title below the > author's name. Both heirloom and neatroff do, so it is maybe a bug in > groff? Also both heirloom and neatroff show name and tile in bold, > whereas groff only shows the name an does not do so in bold. > > Maybe someone with more experience in roff can explain what goes wrong. > > Sincerly, > > Andreas Eder > > > > -- Robert Goulding Director, John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values; Director, Program in History and Philosophy of Science; Assoc. Professor, Program of Liberal Studies, Fellow, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame.
