Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site uokvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uokvax!jab From: jab@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: How to put comments in nroff/troff s - (nf) Message-ID: <6100039@uokvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Aug-84 13:11:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uokvax.6100039 Posted: Sun Aug 5 13:11:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Aug-84 01:00:31 EDT References: <980@druny.UUCP> Lines: 27 Nf-ID: #R:druny:-98000:uokvax:6100039:000:901 Nf-From: uokvax!jab Aug 5 12:11:00 1984 #R:druny:-98000:uokvax:6100039:000:901 uokvax!jab Aug 5 12:11:00 1984 /***** uokvax:net.unix / druny!neal / 4:40 pm Aug 2, 1984 */ Ok, I give up! I tried putting ".." at the begining of each line, but that sometimes leaves bird droppings in my output. I tried putting '\"' at the beginning of each line, but if I do that for several lines in a row, a large blank area appears in the output. So how do you put a block comment in? -Neal McBurnett, ihnp4!druny!neal, 303-538-4852 /* ---------- */ This is kinda sick, admittedly. The \" tells nroff/troff to ignore everything up to the next newline, but you end up with TWO newline characters in the nroff/troff input stream after processing the comment. You need to tell nroff/troff to ignore the fact that we just skipped a line, which normally would generate a line break, by using comments as shown below: '\" This is a commented line that doesn't generate a '\" line break on the output. Jeff Bowles Lisle, IL