I want to pass multiple arguments to a macro and each argument may be
composed of multiple words/characters
I figured out this works but is there a way without defining individual
strings
.nf
.de P
\\*[\\$1]
\\*[\\$2]
\\*[\\$3]
..
.
.ds x a b c
.ds y d e
.ds z f g h i
.P x y z
Richard
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
I know this is wrong
Would someone fix it
.ds a foo
.ds b bar
.
.if d a & d b \{\
\*[a] \*[b]
.\}
Richard
Solution:
.ds a foo
.ds b bar
.
.if d a \
. if d b \{\
\*[a] \*[b]
.\}
From groff.info, section `Operators in Conditionals':
Note that t
I know this is wrong
Would someone fix it
.ds a foo
.ds b bar
.
.if d a & d b \{\
\*[a] \*[b]
.\}
Richard
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
Don't y'all just love dealing with beginners
As with most computer programs, experience helps quite a lot,
and the best way to gain experience is through experimentation.
I had figured out that I had to pass a page size to grops but
I had it stuc
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Denis M. Wilson wrote:
I reported this in February, below is what Werner said:
Denis
Remove the `inline' keyword as described in the last entry of the
PROBLEMS file. I haven't had time yet to fix this.
Werner
That did the trick
Thanks
Richard
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
If I set .pl 15i the resulting document is 11i long and the
bottom of my document is cut off How else should I define a
custom length Using groff-1.18.1
$ cat long_page_test
.pl 15i
this is the top
.sp |14.5i
this is the bottom
$ groff long_page_tes
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Richard,
If I set .pl 15i the resulting document is 11i long and the bottom of
my document is cut off How else should I define a custom length Using
groff-1.18.1
Can you provide some extra detail? Are you using a macro set, e.g. -ms?
Is there a
If I set .pl 15i the resulting document is 11i long and the bottom of my
document is cut off
How else should I define a custom length
Using groff-1.18.1
Thanks
Richard
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