Re: [Groff] -mm formatting macros question

[Marisa Giancarla]

Thanks!

Marisa

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> On Sep 16, 2015, at 1:02 AM, Ingo Schwarze <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi Marisa,
> 
> Marisa Giancarla wrote on Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:03:03PM -0700:
> 
>> This should be easy - what are the macros in -mm
> 
> -mm is a macro set.  It is intended to make entering roff(7) code
> easier.  That implies that it doesn't need to contain macros for
> things that are already easy with low-level roff(7) requests, as
> long as these requests don't interfere with the inner workings of
> the -mm macros.
> 
> All you ask can be done easily with the following roff(7) requests:
> 
>> that end a line early,
> 
> .br
> 
>> and that put a blank line between two paragraphs.
> 
> .sp
> 
> unless the -mm .P macro already adds enough space at a specific
> position for your taste.  You can use the \n(Ps number register
> to adjust vertical paragraph spacing to your needs.
> 
> You could also use the -mm .SP macro, but it doesn't seem to do
> much more than plain .sp, except for the effect that multiple .SP
> in a row don't add up, while multiple .sp do, which may or may not
> be an improvement depending on context, but probably not very
> relevant unless you write your own macros on top of -mm.
> 
> Also note that .VERBON has an option to add a line before the
> verbose text, just in case that's the place where you need it.
> 
>> Is .BR one of them?
> 
> Not at all, according to groff_mm(7), it's an alternating font macro,
> fomatting its odd args in bold and its even macros in roman.
> 
> Yours,
>  Ingo