Re: [Groff] Underlining in groff

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> You can't.  I've thus defined a new macro `Underline1' which
>> handles trailing punctuation.
> 
> In that sort of situation, it usually works to us "\c" to eliminate
> extra space introduced by the line break.

I haven't analyzed in detail why it fails...

> This word is
> .Underline1 underlined
> !
> 
> there is still a space between "underlined" and "!".

Of course it is.  This is standard behaviour of all macros.  You have
to write

  This word is
  .Underline1 underlined !

Somehow you've missed to read the documentation, methinks :-)


    Werner