[9fans] troff macro II

[pmarin.mail@gmail.com (pmarin)]

Also to pay attention to the command .wh  in my example:

.wh -1i NP \" When you reach the final of the page less 1 inch call
the command .NP

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 2:02 AM, pmarin <pmarin.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> Becouse "The backslash character \ is used to introduce troff commands
> and special characters *within* a line of text" (from the Troff
> tutorial)
>
> Try:
> .\" ?ABOVE IS THE ORIGINAL, BELOW MY APPENDIX
> .mk
> .tl '\v'-10.5i'a'b'c\v'+10.5i''
> .rt
> ..
>
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 25 March 2011 22:52, pmarin <pmarin.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> DONE!
>>> Try the attached code. I am not using the ms macros. You will to
>>> change the ms macros to get something similar.
>>>
>>> troff test.ms | tr2post | psfonts > test.ps
>>>
>>> Cheers.
>>> pmarin
>>
>> Yes. This works. Actually, my problem has always only been: how to get
>> back to the top of a page; to have a correct string prepared to put
>> there has been easy for me. Note what I wrote in my 1st post of this
>> thread:
>> .
>> .\" ?ABOVE IS THE ORIGINAL, BELOW MY APPENDIX
>> .mk
>> \v'|0.5i'
>> .tl 'a'b'c'
>> .rt
>> ..
>>
>> and it comes in a modified .BT macro (which is somewhat equivalent to
>> your .NP; ms actually sets [as far as I know] 3 traps on a page, 1 at
>> the top [.NP] and 2 at the bottom [.FO a .BT]). If I had written just
>> .
>> .\" ?ABOVE IS THE ORIGINAL, BELOW MY APPENDIX
>> .tl '\v'-10.5i'a'b'c\v'+10.5i''
>> ..
>>
>> as you have, it would have basically done what I want. So now the
>> question is why
>> .tl '\v'-10.5i'a'b'c\v'+10.5i''
>> moves back and does the work, whilst
>> .mk
>> \v'|0.5i'
>> .tl 'a'b'c'
>> .rt
>> does not.
>> Nor does this, for instance:
>> \v'-10.5i'
>> .tl 'a'b'c'
>> \v'+10.5i'
>>
>> Thanks for your help
>> Ruda
>>
>>
>