My thanks to each of Thomas, Peter, and Ralph for their helpful responses and
pointers to documentation. -- Steve
On Sunday, April 10, 2022, 03:42:11 AM CDT, Ralph Corderoy
wrote:
Hi Steve,
Peter wrote:
> \& is a zero-width, non-printing character whose most usual use-case
> is to
Hi Steve,
Peter wrote:
> \& is a zero-width, non-printing character whose most usual use-case
> is to prevent groff from interpreting a period at the beginning of an
> input line as a control character.
groff's info on it:
info groff Requests | less -j15 +/'\\\&'
And more in §4.1 of CSTR
Steve --
On Sat, Apr 09, 2022, Steve Ross via wrote:
> When using the "mom" macro of `.FT' instead of escape sequences,
> I would like to end a sentence with a Roman font
> .FT I
> period
> .FT R
> .br
> How would I do that?
Place \& before the period:
.FT I
period
.FT R
\&.
.br
\&
Steve Ross via wrote:
> Groffers,
> Following is the content of a "mom"-formatted file that poses a question to
> you.
>
> --- begin ---This is Roman font.
> .br
> This is a sentence ending with a word in the italic font
> (by using in-line escape sequences)
> before ending with a Roman font
Groffers,
Following is the content of a "mom"-formatted file that poses a question to you.
--- begin ---This is Roman font.
.br
This is a sentence ending with a word in the italic font
(by using in-line escape sequences)
before ending with a Roman font \fIperiod\fP.
.br
When using the "mom" macro
