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Re: [Groff] Is setting the PO register a page trap?


From: Ralph Corderoy
Subject: Re: [Groff] Is setting the PO register a page trap?
Date: Sun, 03 May 2015 16:31:53 +0100

Hi,

Werner wrote,
> > > Curious there seems to be no way to represent a negative literal
> > > number the way one can specify a nonnegative one, i.e., a negative
> > > number just for itself, not as a decrement.
> > 
> > you can specify a negative number by e.g. prepending a 0 (i.e.
> > 0-.25i).
> 
> Another solution is to include the whole value in parentheses, e.g.
> 
>   .nr PO (-.25i)

Both of which were on the
http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/Setting-Registers.html
page I linked to.  :-)

Cheers, Ralph.



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