Re: [Groff] mc problem

[Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

At 03:38 21/07/2003, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> What's the result of
>
>   .ll 1i
>   .mc \(br
>   .mc
>   xxx
>   .br
>   xxx
>
> with AT&T troff?
>
> With groff I get
>
>   xxx        |
>   xxx
>
> There is special code in groff to assure that the margin character
> isn't disabled immediately.  Since this is a bizarre feature I just
> want to be sure that it is for compatibility with troff...

With ATT nroff in Solaris 2.7 (two-space left margin added for indenting):

  xxx         |
  xxx

ATT troff ASCII approximation (troff -a, with hand indention):

  xxx \(br
  xxx