> You shouldn't be seeing a blank line. What's more, removing the > space before the opening parens should cause the \R escape to fail > with 'troff: <file>:<line>: warning: missing number'. A backtrace > points directly to the \R line. > > I'm mystified. Can you send a small example exhibiting the problem > (input and output) along with your groff command line? > I cannot reproduce the case without the blank and no extra blank line. In the attached file the macro Pos1 gives the correct result, but an extra line. Pos2 gives a wrong result, but I don't see any error message. Pos3 gives the correct result without an extra line. With "man groff" I cannot find an option to enable error messages.
My command line is "groff -Tps test > test.ps".
I attach the two files.
Thanks for your help,
ulrich
.ps 20 .vs 22 .nf .de Pos1 \R'foo1 (\\n[.d]*254+72)/72000' \\n[foo1] mm/10 .. position: \n[.d] units, \*[Pos1] position: \n[.d] units, \*[Pos1] .de Pos2 \R'foo2(\\n[.d]*254+72)/72000' \\n[foo2] mm/10 .. position: \n[.d] units, \*[Pos2] position: \n[.d] units, \*[Pos2] .de Pos3 \R'foo3 (\\n[.d]*254+72)/72000' \\n[foo3] mm/10 .sp -1v .. position: \n[.d] units, \*[Pos3] position: \n[.d] units, \*[Pos3]
test.ps
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