Re: [Groff] Problem with MM spacing with macro immediately after a heading (H)

[Damian McGuckin]

On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, Mike Bianchi wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 04:44:40PM +0100, Carsten Kunze wrote:
> > Hello Mike,
> >
> > what do you mean here--Damian didn't use \#?
> >
> > Carsten
>
> His example was
>
> >       .H 2 "A Heading"
> >       .TS
> >       .\" some table of something
> >       .....
> >       .TE
> > or
> >       .H 2 "Another Heading"
> >       .DS 0
> >       .\" some display which needs to be done literally
> >       .....
> >       .DE

Without trying to complicate the discussion, I used

        .\"

Not
        \#

The former is a pure comment. It does not enter into any processing.

As I understand it, any number of these comments, i.e. a line beginning

        .\"

should be able to be inserted (and assumed ignored) into the text anywhere 
inside a troff, or groff document, except within those preprocessor pairs 
such as PS/PE, EQ/EN, and probably strictly TS/TE.

Regards - Damian

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