On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:49:24AM +0100, Sven wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 09:57:32AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
> > In *roff, \w'string', where ' is any character, gives you the width of
> > string. groff sees \wait{sec}, assumes you're using the separator "a"
> > and that you're missing the trailing separator, and outputs the width of
> > "it{sec}", i.e. 168 "basic units". The definition of a basic unit is
> > device-dependent.
>
> mmm, yes, this makes things more understandable.
>
> btw, would \w\ have woreked ?
No. That just causes \ and the character following it to be used as the
separator for \w.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]