Re: [Groff] An observation on .writem

[Werner LEMBERG]

> >     .ll 5i
> >     .di xx
> >     nice test\p
> >     .br
> >     .di
> >     .
> >     .ds yy \*(xx
> >
> >     .xx
> >
> >     This is a \*(yy.
> >
> > After ending the diversion xx, the space between the two words is
> > no longer stretchable (but discardable at the end of line).
> 
> That's interesting.  Here's [...] nroff on AIX 3.2.5:
> 
>     nice                                          test
> 
>     This                     is                      a
>     nice
>     test.

Aha.  This means that AIX nroff isn't able to discard the
unstretchable space, thus distorting the output even more.  groff's
behaviour is better.  And no, I won't try to emulate UNIX troff to
make groff's output worse :-)

Nevertheless, thanks for pointing this out.  It will eventually go
into the manual.

    Werner