Re: [Groff] Horizontal rule w/ length a fraction of the page wid

2005-07-15 Thread Ted Harding
On 15-Jul-05 Michael Smith wrote: > Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> To overcome all those limitations I suggest that you say this: >> >> \l'\n(.lu*80u/100u) >> >> avoiding fractional numbers. > > Thanks! That works perfectly (with an apostrophe in place of the > closing paren, wh

Re: [Groff] Horizontal rule w/ length a fraction of the page width?

2005-07-15 Thread Michael Smith
Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is a very important concept if you work with groff requests and > escapes: The default scaling indicator. For \l, it is the em unit. > This: > > \l'\n(.l*.80' > > is thus handled as > > \l'\n(.lm*.80m' I see now. Before I posted I had bee