Sometimes, my Twitter feed coughs up some cool articles, like
this one: "Performance comparison: counting words in Python,
Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust”
https://benhoyt.com/writings/count-words/
The Awk solution was by far the shortest by line count. Since
the runtime for all the different so
As the example came through in my mail reader--in a different,
proportionally spaced font--the effect of .ll in the examples was
hard to figure out. Which of the two line lengths in the new case is
actually operative? Why are the inch lengths in the old and new
examples so different? The new exampl
Argh. I need to correct an error in my description of "Example 3".
I've corrected my own quoted text below.
> I agree that that could be done, and might be desirable. I would
> reiterate that the original example _does not illustrate the use of
> the second argument to .ss_, which I think is a
At 2021-03-23T19:41:58-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
[...]
> The example itself originally read:
>
> .ll 4.5i
> 1.\ This is the first footnote.\c
> .ss 48
> .nop
> .ss 12
> 2.\ This is the second footnote.
>
> RESULT:
>
> 1. This is the first footnote.2. This
>
