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diff --git a/doc/groff.html.node/Filling.html b/doc/groff.html.node/Filling.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f6db6f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/groff.html.node/Filling.html @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html> +<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 7.0.3, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> +<head> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> +<!-- This manual documents GNU troff version 1.23.0. + +Copyright © 1994-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no +Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A +copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free +Documentation License". --> +<title>Filling (The GNU Troff Manual)</title> + +<meta name="description" content="Filling (The GNU Troff Manual)"> +<meta name="keywords" content="Filling (The GNU Troff Manual)"> +<meta name="resource-type" content="document"> +<meta name="distribution" content="global"> +<meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> +<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> + +<link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> +<link href="Request-Index.html" rel="index" title="Request Index"> +<link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> +<link href="Text.html" rel="up" title="Text"> +<link href="Sentences.html" rel="next" title="Sentences"> +<link href="Text.html" rel="prev" title="Text"> +<style type="text/css"> +<!-- +div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} +--> +</style> + + +</head> + +<body lang="en"> +<div class="subsection-level-extent" id="Filling"> +<div class="nav-panel"> +<p> +Next: <a href="Sentences.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Sentences</a>, Previous: <a href="Text.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Text</a>, Up: <a href="Text.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Text</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Request-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> +</div> +<hr> +<h4 class="subsection" id="Filling-1">5.1.1 Filling</h4> + +<p>When GNU <code class="code">troff</code> starts up, it obtains information about the device +for which it is preparing output.<a class="footnote" id="DOCF18" href="groff.html_fot.html#FOOT18"><sup>18</sup></a> An essential property is the length of the output +line, such as “6.5 inches”. +</p> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-word_002c-definition-of"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-filling"></a> +<p>GNU <code class="code">troff</code> interprets plain text files employing the Unix +line-ending convention. It reads input a character at a time, +collecting words as it goes, and fits as many words together on an +output line as it can—this is known as <em class="dfn">filling</em>. To GNU +<code class="code">troff</code>, a <em class="dfn">word</em> is any sequence of one or more characters +that aren’t spaces or newlines. The exceptions separate +words.<a class="footnote" id="DOCF19" href="groff.html_fot.html#FOOT19"><sup>19</sup></a> To disable filling, see +<a class="ref" href="Manipulating-Filling-and-Adjustment.html">Manipulating Filling and Adjustment</a>. +</p> +<div class="example"> +<div class="group"><pre class="example-preformatted">It is a truth universally acknowledged +that a single man in possession of a +good fortune must be in want of a wife. + ⇒ It is a truth universally acknowledged that a + ⇒ single man in possession of a good fortune must + ⇒ be in want of a wife. +</pre></div></div> + + +</div> + + + +</body> +</html> |