Re: [Groff] Misformatting of CR font in PIC macros

[Werner LEMBERG]

> The left-hand boxes in the figure contain "Filename" in Roman and
> below it "hash.c" in Courier.  While in the pic macros both have the
> same x offset, "hash.c" is offset further to the right than
> "Filename", when both were expected to be exactly left-aligned.
> Note that changing \fC to \fR results in perfect alignment.

The difference in formatting is due to the different width of spaces
in the two fonts.  You shouldn't write

  \fR foo \fP...
  \fC bar \fP...

but rather

  \fRfoo\fP...
  \fCbar\fP...

groff is not LaTeX :-) spaces after a `\fX' command are *not*
suppressed.


    Werner