Re: [Groff] Beginner Groff issue: number registers inside macros

[Clarke Echols]

On 06/27/2012 10:37 AM, Zoë Blade wrote:
> > Enjoy, and never give up *roff.  The better you know
> > it the more beautiful and elegant it turns to be.
>
> Like Unix and C in general then? :D
>
> > P.S.: Please,  reply to the mailing list when appro-
> >       priate.  I wrote to both your e-mail  and  the
> >       list because it's seems to be a common practce
> >       here.
>
> My mistake, I forget you have to specifically click on "reply to all" in these 
> new fangled e-mail clients.  I bet I'm not line wrapping either. :/  Alas, the world 
> kinda insisted I move away from elm and pine many years ago, for reasons your .sig 
> suggests you know all too well...
>
> > P.P.S.: An interesting website you got!
>
> Thank you!
>
> And on a side note, I've now realised the more fundamental error I'd made.  If 
> I want all the subsequent .D type paragraphs (.D being a macro I wrote that 
> sets a few stylistic values) to have spacing in between them, but not the 
> first, then I should be using a blank line to separate them, not specifying .D 
> again in between them all.  In other words, it looks like I should only specify 
> the type of paragraph when it changes, not every time.  And now my document 
> source looks a lot neater!  So now I have both the answer I wanted and the 
> answer I needed. :)
>
> Thanks again!
>
> All the best,
> Zoe.

That may not be what you need.  A blank line has the same vertical
spacing as a .sp 1v request.  Paragraph spacing is more typically
.sp .5v

You may need to set a variable that enables you to deal with the
first instance of a paragraph, then do the right thing for
subsequent ones.

Clarke