Re: [groff] Does the groff -ms implementation have a way to switch to a new column in .2C mode?

2019-06-06 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Thu, Jun 06, 2019, T. Kurt Bond wrote: > The context is that I've got a part of my text that needs to stay together, > and it is being split across columns, so I need to switch the column before > that part starts. I have used a .br and .ne X, where X is guesstimate at > the lines needed, but w

Re: [groff] Does the groff -ms implementation have a way to switch to a new column in .2C mode?

2019-06-06 Thread T. Kurt Bond
The context is that I've got a part of my text that needs to stay together, and it is being split across columns, so I need to switch the column before that part starts. I have used a .br and .ne X, where X is guesstimate at the lines needed, but wondered if there was a cleaner approach. On Thu,

Re: [groff] Does the groff -ms implementation have a way to switch to a new column in .2C mode?

2019-06-06 Thread Ted Harding
A. On Thu, 2019-06-06 at 14:59 -0400, T. Kurt Bond wrote: > I didn't see it documented in GROFF_MS(7). There are various ways (though not many) to do this, depending on thr context and on the reason for switchong columns. Genrally, there is no stabdard built-in method in ms (hence not docume

[groff] Does the groff -ms implementation have a way to switch to a new column in .2C mode?

2019-06-06 Thread T. Kurt Bond
I didn't see it documented in GROFF_MS(7). -- T. Kurt Bond, tkurtb...@gmail.com