[Groff] Another silly question: \n[.ll]

2012-06-28 Thread Zoë Blade
Hi again! Sorry about all these questions, resources for such specific questions seem a bit scarce... As per page 101 of The GNU Troff Manual, I'm looking at \n[.ll] which I'd expect to be 6.5 inches measured in ems, but when I print this figure (even with the phrase \n[.ll] being the entirety

Re: [Groff] Another silly question: \n[.ll]

2012-06-28 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
I'm looking at \n[.ll] which I'd expect to be 6.5 inches measured in ems, but when I print this figure (even with the phrase \n[.ll] being the entirety of the Groff input file), the output is always 468000 (or 451275 for A4 paper, etc). This is a lot larger than what I was expecting.

Re: [Groff] Another silly question: \n[.ll]

2012-06-28 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012, Zoë Blade wrote: Or, to broaden the question out to what I'm actually trying to accomplish overall, I'm trying to specify the right hand indentation. It looks like there's no such thing semantically, so I'm trying to find out what the original line length is, and subtract