Update of bug #61437 (project groff): Status: None => Invalid Assigned to: None => gbranden Open/Closed: Open => Closed
_______________________________________________________ Follow-up Comment #2: Thanks, Dave. Yes, Bjarni's patch would indeed regress the documentation and make it inaccurate. I don't have a lengthy, boilerplate quotation from Dijkstra to patronizingly offer. Instead I'll have to settle for a concrete illustration. Input: $ cat EXPERIMENTS/backslash-d-and-r.roff A .sp B\v'1m'C\v'-0.5m'D .sp 2v E\dF\rG troff output: x T ps x res 72000 1 1 x init p1 x font 5 TR f5 s10000 V12000 H72000 md DFd tA n12000 0 V36000 H72000 tB v10000 tC V41000 tD n12000 0 V72000 H72000 tE v5000 tF V67000 tG n12000 0 x trailer V792000 x stop I trust the reader to generate PostScript from either of the above and further confirm the difference in measurements by visual inspection. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61437> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/