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From: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	"Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
	"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: .RS
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 11:15:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a1705306-0d38-522a-e903-5e63aafdb4eb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ab209b21-a93e-fd7c-e447-c8ff507cb062@gmail.com>


Hi Michael,

On 11/13/20 9:52 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
[...]
>> Do you know why is that?
> 
> Hmmm -- I don't know. I was going to ask, doesn't s/>RS 4/.RS +4n/
> fix the problem? But I see that it does not.

No; I tried many things, but I didn't find a solution.
So, we'll have to keep using .in, right?

> 
> By the way, your comments (\") actually cause the rendered
> output to change, as far as I can see! In particular,
> the \" on the final .RE leads to some strangeness:
> 
> [[
> .IP * 2
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit,
> sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
> Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris
> nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
> .\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
> .IP             \" Indent is 2n after this
> .in +4n         \" Indent is 6n after this
> .EX
> I am indented 6n from normal paragraphs.
> .EE
> .in             \" Return to normal
> .\"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
> .IP *
> Augue interdum velit euismod in pellentesque.
> Tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.
> Gravida arcu ac tortor dignissim convallis.
> .\"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
> .IP             \" Indent is 2n after this
> .RS 4
> .EX
> I am indented 4n from normal paragraphs!!!
> .EE
> .RE             \" nom
> .\"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
> .PP
> Augue interdum velit euismod in pellentesque.
> ]]
> 
> Gives:
> 
> [[
>        * Lorem  ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do
>          eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.   Ut
>          enim  ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris
>          nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
> 
>              I am indented 6n from normal paragraphs.
> 
>        * Augue interdum velit euismod in pellentesque.  Tristique  senec‐
>          tus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.  Gravida arcu
>          ac tortor dignissim convallis.
> 
>            I am indented 4n from normal paragraphs!!!
> 
> Augue interdum velit euismod in pellentesque.
> ]]
> 
> No indent at all on the final line!

Hmm that's weird.  I added the comments in the email, so I didn't test them.

Thanks,

Alex

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-13 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-11 14:22 .RS Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2020-11-11 15:09 ` .RS G. Branden Robinson
2020-11-11 15:34   ` .RS Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2020-11-12  7:09     ` .RS G. Branden Robinson
2020-11-12  9:49       ` .RS Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2020-11-12 19:57         ` .RS Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2020-11-12 20:57           ` .RS Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2020-11-13  8:03             ` .RS G. Branden Robinson
2020-11-13  8:52           ` .RS Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
     [not found]             ` <20201113093846.jzxlkw3o3pqkkr47@localhost.localdomain>
2020-11-13 10:02               ` .RS Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-11-13 10:15             ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2020-11-13 10:27               ` .RS Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-11-13 10:34       ` .RS G. Branden Robinson

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