Re: [Groff] ms macro and PO (left margin)

[Jorgen Grahn]

On Thu May  8 09:38:17 2003, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> > This is a bug in -ms which was discussed here a while ago; Werner (I
> > think) provided a patch, but I guess it wasn't incorporated into the
> > source.
> 
> Since I'm not a user of -ms I wanted feedback from the list which I
> didn't get (probably my mail has been missed by some of you).  I'm
> repeating my mail from February below -- perhaps this time I get a
> reaction from the groff audience :-)

OK, I had maybe half a dozen trivial -ms texts lying around with this
sequence at the top, before anything was rendered:

.nr PO 2i
.po \n(POu

I applied the patch to groff you posted, and tried removing the .po request.
The result was good: the exact same rendering for both -Tps and -Tlatin1.

...except for the document with a title page (.RP) -- that page got a
different indentation.

What's right and what's wrong?  I don't have the energy to try... oh, wait,
yes I have: ... Solaris' nroff will produce identical output with or without
that extra .po.

Anyway, I guess the patch is an improvement. From my point of view, at
least.

/Jorgen

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