Re: [Groff] Line continuation

[Miklos Somogyi]

On 26/10/2008, at 06:50 PM, Keith Marshall wrote:

> On Sunday 26 October 2008 01:22:38 Miklos Somogyi wrote:
> > I need to start the remainder at the beginning of
> > the next line. That would make my groff source
> > less readable:
> >
> >     xxx  yyyy  wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
> >     xxx  yyyy  wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
> >     xxx  yyyy  wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww\
> >     wwwwwwwwwwwwwww
> >     xxx   yyyy  wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
> >
> > I would like to push the remainder of wwwww to the right so as not
> > to   obscure the  xxx  yyyy structure and ask
> > groff to please disregard all these leading spaces alongside with
> > the   linefeed.
>
> Perhaps, if you gave us an example of your actual input, including
> relevant requests, and the output you expect to see, it would be
> easier for us to understand what you are trying to do.
>
> Best guess, based on incomplete information: could this be what you
> want?
>
>     .nop   xxx  yyyy  wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
>     .nop   xxx  yyyy  wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
>     .nop   xxx  yyyy  wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww\c
>     .nop                 wwwwwwwwwwwwwww
>     .nop   xxx  yyyy  wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

I'm happy that based on incomplete information you've still guessed it  
right, i.e. it was pure text ,
in no fill mode. Thank you.

However, my understanding is still not complete.
The documentation says: ".nop anything" executes "anything".
Somehow I could not see the connection between execute anything and  
ignoring leading spaces.

Now that you have done it, I think that .nop   wwww is looking for  
something (other than spaces) to execute.
Finding the wwww bunch it decides that it is text, not command, and  
how do you execute text:
you append it. Brilliant, if this is the solution. Is it?

Thanks,

Miklos

> Regards,
> Keith.