Re: End-of-sentence spacing, for our German readers

2021-01-14 Thread John A.
On 2021-01-14, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 06:01:33AM +, Dorai Sitaram via wrote: >> I'm used to single-spacing by now, given its ubiquity, but surely the >> Germans carry their disdain for typographic breathing space a little too >> far? As in the posted article, paragra

Re: Specifying short marginal note?

2021-01-08 Thread John A.
On 2021-01-08, Dorai Sitaram wrote: > What's a good way to put a bit of text in the left margin of the > "current" line? With ms, I would do this: .LP .mk .po -2m >> .br .po .rt Some text. This results in ">>" being put to the left of "Some text". You can read about .mk

Re: Page numbers in ms keeps

2021-01-07 Thread John A.
John A. wrote: Does anyone have a good solution for this problem? .KF [...] The current page number is \n(PN. .KE If the floating keep above is moved to another page, because it doesn't fit on the current one, then the PN (and %, for that matter) register holds the incorrect page. I

Re: End-of-sentence spacing

2021-01-07 Thread John A.
Karthik Suresh (2020-12-20) dixit: [...] Start each sentence on a new line. Make lines short, and break lines at natural places, such as after commas and semicolons, rather than randomly. Since most people change documents by rewriting phrases and adding, deleting and rearranging sentences, these

Page numbers in ms keeps

2021-01-04 Thread John A.
Does anyone have a good solution for this problem? .KF [...] The current page number is \n(PN. .KE If the floating keep above is moved to another page, because it doesn't fit on the current one, then the PN (and %, for that matter) register holds the incorrect page. I suspect a solution may