Re: Can .substring be made to handle an empty result?

2021-04-04 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi, Jim! At 2021-03-26T15:20:11-0700, Jim Avera wrote: > I'm trying to use .substring to remove the first character of a > string, leaving behind whatever follows, even if that is nothing (i.e. > the string had only one character). > >   .substring str 1 > > or > >   .length n2 "\*[str] >   .nr

Re: Hi! Do you have a 64 bit version of Groff for windows?

2021-04-04 Thread Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
Am Sonntag, 4. April 2021, 08:37:02 CEST schrieb G. Branden Robinson: > At 2021-04-02T17:16:28-0400, Cool Kiwi wrote: > > Hello! I am new to GNU troff and I would like to try it. But, when I > > went to download it, I couldn't find a 64 bit version of groff to use. > > Do you have 64 bit version (e

Re: Soft hyphens

2021-04-04 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sun, Apr 04, 2021, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I think the sentence > >Explicitly hyphenated words such as "mother-in-law" are eligible for >breaking after each of their hyphens when GNU 'troff' fills lines. > > does most of the work you're asking for... It does, but for clarity and