bugGNU roff - Bugs: bug #63739, [mm] make nP work more like DWB mm?

 
 

bug #63739: [mm] make nP work more like DWB mm?

Submitter:  G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Submitted:  Thu 02 Feb 2023 03:25:23 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Macro mm Severity:  1 - Wish
Item Group:  Feature change Status:  None
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Open Planned Release:  None
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Thu 02 Feb 2023 03:25:23 AM UTC, original submission:  

A difference between DWB mm and groff mm has been around for as long as groff mm itself, but seems never to have been documented or commented upon, as far as I can tell.  In Git it is now documented.


.IP \[bu]
DWB
.IR mm 's
.B nP
macro indented the second line of a paragraph to align it with the start
of the text of the first
(after the paragraph number);
.IR "groff mm" 's
does not.


There is no output line count argument to the `ti` request, so I suppose this would be done with with a diversion and a diversion trap to set a temporary indent for the second output line.

This ticket is to gather views on whether this would be worth implementing.

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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