On 2026-03-12 Dave Kemper wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 3:10 PM Morten Bo Johansen <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Is that expected behaviour? > > Yes, if full justification is on (adjustment mode "n" in roff > parlance), which it is by default. If you know you want the > horizontal line on a separate line from the text, placing an explicit > break between the two will stop roff from adjusting that line, as the > text is then effectively the last line in a paragraph. > > $ echo -e ".pl 1\nShall I compare thee to a summer's > day?\n.br\n\l'16.5c'" | groff -Tascii > Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Okay. I have seen some minor spacing justification in some texts I have written, but I didn't know it could get this extreme ;) echo ".pl 1\nShall day?\n\l'16.5c'" | groff -T ascii Shall day? _________________________________________________________________ Regards, Morten
