[Info-vax] runoff .RNH fun and games.

[John E. Malmberg]

On 12/22/2013 12:24 PM, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <v9qdne_DO9BChCrPnZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d at mchsi.com>, "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.network> writes:
>> On 12/20/2013 10:31 PM, George Cornelius wrote:
>>> John E. Malmberg wrote:
>>>> I am trying to use runoff to generate a .hlp file from a .RNH file.
>>>>
>>>> I already found the issue that the source filename needs to be in upper
>>>> case.
>>>>
>>>> The issue that I am finding is that each line of output from runoff has
>>>> <CR><LF> at the end followed by a blank line with <CR><LF> on it.
>>>
>>> That is not what it is doing - at least if you selected
>>> single-spaced lines.
>>
>> The default is single-space lines and I have specifically selected
>> single space lines.
>>
>> I still get double spaced lines in all cases.
>>
>>>> I can reproduce this from VAX/VMS 7.3 to IA64/VMS 8.4.
>>
>
> Hmm... file LATIN.RNH is:

> Where are these the double space lines?

I do not get them with your LATIN.RNH.

> What RUNOFF .FLAGS have you specified as enabled?  Have you specified
> .SPACING in your .RNH files???

EAGLE> type vms_gawk.hlp
1 GAWK

  GAWK is GNU awk, the Free Software Foundation's implementation of

  the awk programming language.  awk is an interpretive language which

  can handle many data-reformatting jobs with just a few lines of code.

  It has powerful string manipulation and pattern matching capabilities

  built in.  This version is compatible with POSIX 1003.2 awk.

EAGLE> type vms_gawk.rnh
.SP 1
.P 0
.AP
.LM 1
.RM 70
.NO FLAGS UNDERLINE
.I-1
1 GAWK
  GAWK is GNU awk, the Free Software Foundation's implementation of
  the awk programming language.  awk is an interpretive language which
  can handle many data-reformatting jobs with just a few lines of code.
  It has powerful string manipulation and pattern matching capabilities
  built in.  This version is compatible with POSIX 1003.2 awk.
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I pulled the start (Except for adding the .SP1 from the MMK_HELP.RNH 
file, and it also renders in double space.

I see nothing in the runoff documentation that the .P0 or .AP changes 
the line spacing to double.

Regards,
-John