Hi,
Werner wrote,
> > > Curious there seems to be no way to represent a negative literal
> > > number the way one can specify a nonnegative one, i.e., a negative
> > > number just for itself, not as a decrement.
> >
> > you can specify a negative number by e.g. prepending a 0 (i.e.
> > 0-.25i).
>
>> Curious there seems to be no way to represent a negative literal
>> number the way one can specify a nonnegative one, i.e., a negative
>> number just for itself, not as a decrement.
>
> you can specify a negative number by e.g. prepending a 0 (i.e. 0-.25i).
Another solution is to include the
Hi Dorai,
> Thanks Ralph. I guess +x would have the same "accumulating" behavior as -x.
> Curious there seems to be no way to represent a negative literal number the
> way one can specify a nonnegative one, i.e., a negative number just for
> itself, not as a decrement.
> I was able to solve my p
Thanks Ralph. I guess +x would have the same "accumulating" behavior as -x.
Curious there seems to be no way to represent a negative literal number the way
one can specify a nonnegative one, i.e., a negative number just for itself, not
as a decrement.
I was able to solve my particular problem w
Hi Dorai,
> I did a relative set of the PO (page-offset) register at the head of
> an ms document
> .nr PO -.25i
> (I.e., I wanted it to be a quarter-inch less than its default value.)
That decrements PO by ¼". See
http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/Setting-Registers.html#Setting
