Re: [Groff] UTP macro question

[Michael Hobgood]

Thanks Jon, both fixes applied. Now, now more errors
or warnings.  As to your question of what I was attempting
to do, I was using .se "" "" "Preface" to get the heading.
Now, the .chapter "" "" Preface works great.

Cordially,
Michael Hobgood
 

On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 03:07:37PM -0400, Jon Snader wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 10:21:34AM -0500, Michael Hobgood wrote:
> >     When adding the .page macro to the preface, I found that
> > .page does not like page numbers given as alphabetic sequences,
> > ie .page xii.  It works okay from what I can tell, it just emits
> > a warning.  Does this macro need changed or can we live with
> > it making a warning?
> 
> That's because I put the argument to page in a number register
> for use by the Rn and Pn macros.  I've updated utp.mac to
> define a string instead of using a number register.  Now it
> doesn't matter what the argument is, the page macro just
> prints it in the margin and in the Pn and Rn summaries.
> 
> >     Also, the .se macro doesn't like any non-numeric number
> 
> What are you trying to do?  You can have a chapter number 1, 2, ...
> or a letter A, B, ... .
> 
> > given, nor does it appreciate being given the word "preface" to
> > use.  Understandable, since the macro is looking for something else.
> > It will work as is and produce the word preface correctly, but it
> > causes a nasty error message to be emitted.  Again, is this something
> > that needs changed in the macro or can we live with it.
> 
> I also fixed this.  Do the preface like this:
> 
>       .chapter "" "" Preface
> 
> I'll upload the new macros to Larry, so they should be available
> directly.
> 
> Jon Snader
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