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[Groff] "Cosmetic" filling
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Ted Harding |
Subject: |
[Groff] "Cosmetic" filling |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Aug 2006 23:18:48 +0100 (BST) |
Hi Folks,
A little query which I perhaps ought to know the
answer to ...
Suppose you have the last line of a paragraph, and
(formatted) it is nearly as long as the line-length.
Normally, such a line which is shorter then the
line-length would not be filled.
But it can be aesthetically pleasing to stretch it
slightly so as to really fill the line-length.
1. I'm not aware of a simple mechanism in groff to
do this -- e.g. fill all lines whose minimum
formatted length is within X of line-length.
2. Observation of some groff output suggests to
me that groff may already do this (or maybe it
was just a coincidence);[1] but if it does then I
don't know how it does it nor how to control it.
There is the "\p" sequence which forces a particular
line to be stretched to fill, but this of course
requires micro-editing by the user (what's new? :).
[1] I have just written a 1-page document in which
I noticed that two standalone lines, as output, and
one final line of a paragraph, all seemed to exactly
fill the line-length. I verified this using a duplicate
of the lines terminated with "\p": at high magnification
in ghostview the two ends are at exactly the same
vertical position, to within ocular resolution!
Any comments?
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