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Font +translation is applied. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><code class="code">t</code></dt> +<dd><p>True if the document is being processed in <code class="code">troff</code> mode. +See <a class="xref" href="troff-and-nroff-Modes.html"><code class="code">troff</code> and <code class="code">nroff</code> Modes</a>. +</p> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-vtroff"></a> +</dd> +<dt><code class="code">v</code></dt> +<dd><p>Always false. This condition is recognized only for compatibility with +certain other <code class="code">troff</code> implementations.<a class="footnote" id="DOCF88" href="groff.html_fot.html#FOOT88"><sup>88</sup></a> +</p></dd> +</dl> + +<p>If the first argument to an <code class="code">if</code>, <code class="code">ie</code>, or <code class="code">while</code> +request begins with a non-alphanumeric character apart from <code class="code">!</code> +(see below); it performs an <i class="slanted">output comparison test</i>. +<a class="footnote" id="DOCF89" href="groff.html_fot.html#FOOT89"><sup>89</sup></a> +</p> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-output-comparison-operator"></a> +<dl class="table"> +<dt><code class="code"><code class="code">'</code><var class="var">xxx</var><code class="code">'</code><var class="var">yyy</var><code class="code">'</code></code></dt> +<dd><p>True if formatting the comparands <var class="var">xxx</var> and <var class="var">yyy</var> produces the +same output commands. The delimiter need not be a neutral apostrophe: +the output comparison operator accepts the same delimiters as most +escape sequences; see <a class="ref" href="Delimiters.html">Delimiters</a>. This <em class="dfn">output comparison +operator</em> formats <var class="var">xxx</var> and <var class="var">yyy</var> in separate environments; +after the comparison, the resulting data are discarded. +</p> +<div class="example"> +<div class="group"><pre class="example-preformatted">.ie "|"\fR|\fP" true +.el false + ⇒ true +</pre></div></div> + +<p>The resulting glyph properties, including font family, style, size, and +slant, must match, but not necessarily the requests and/or escape +sequences used to obtain them. In the previous example, ‘<samp class="samp">|</samp>’ and +‘<samp class="samp">\fR|\fP</samp>’ result in ‘<samp class="samp">|</samp>’ glyphs in the same typefaces at the +same positions, so the comparands are equal. If ‘<samp class="samp">.ft I</samp>’ had +been added before the ‘<samp class="samp">.ie</samp>’, they would differ: the first ‘<samp class="samp">|</samp>’ +would produce an italic ‘<samp class="samp">|</samp>’, not a roman one. Motions must match +in orientation and magnitude to within the applicable horizontal and +vertical motion quanta of the device, after rounding. ‘<samp class="samp">.if +"\u\d"\v'0'"</samp>’ is false even though both comparands result in zero net +motion, because motions are not interpreted or optimized but sent as-is +to the output.<a class="footnote" id="DOCF90" href="groff.html_fot.html#FOOT90"><sup>90</sup></a> On the other hand, ‘<samp class="samp">.if "\d"\v'0.5m'"</samp>’ is true, because +<code class="code">\d</code> is defined as a downward motion of one-half em.<a class="footnote" id="DOCF91" href="groff.html_fot.html#FOOT91"><sup>91</sup></a> +</p> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-string-comparison"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-comparison-of-strings"></a> +<p>Surround the comparands with <code class="code">\?</code> to avoid formatting them; this +causes them to be compared character by character, as with string +comparisons in other programming languages. +</p> +<div class="example"> +<div class="group"><pre class="example-preformatted">.ie "\?|\?"\?\fR|\fP\?" true +.el false + ⇒ false +</pre></div></div> + +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-_005c_003f_002c-and-copy-mode"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-copy-mode_002c-and-_005c_003f"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-mode_002c-copy_002c-and-_005c_003f"></a> +<p>Since comparands protected with <code class="code">\?</code> are read in copy mode +(see <a class="pxref" href="Copy-Mode.html">Copy Mode</a>), they need not even be valid <code class="code">groff</code> syntax. +The escape character is still lexically recognized, however, and +consumes the next character. +</p> +<div class="example"> +<div class="group"><pre class="example-preformatted">.ds a \[ +.ds b \[ +.if '\?\*a\?'\?\*b\?' a and b equivalent +.if '\?\\?'\?\\?' backslashes equivalent + ⇒ a and b equivalent +</pre></div></div> +</dd> +</dl> + +<p>The above operators can’t be combined with most others, but a leading +‘<samp class="samp">!</samp>’, not followed immediately by spaces or tabs, complements an +expression. +</p> +<div class="example"> +<div class="group"><pre class="example-preformatted">.nr x 1 +.ie !r x register x is not defined +.el register x is defined + ⇒ register x is defined +</pre></div></div> + +<p>Spaces and tabs are optional immediately after the ‘<samp class="samp">c</samp>’, ‘<samp class="samp">d</samp>’, +‘<samp class="samp">F</samp>’, ‘<samp class="samp">m</samp>’, ‘<samp class="samp">r</samp>’, and ‘<samp class="samp">S</samp>’ operators, but right after +‘<samp class="samp">!</samp>’, they end the predicate and the conditional evaluates +true.<a class="footnote" id="DOCF92" href="groff.html_fot.html#FOOT92"><sup>92</sup></a> +</p> +<div class="example"> +<div class="group"><pre class="example-preformatted">.nr x 1 +.ie ! r x register x is not defined +.el register x is defined + ⇒ r x register x is not defined +</pre></div></div> + +<p>The unexpected ‘<samp class="samp">r x</samp>’ in the output is a clue that our conditional +was not interpreted as we planned, but matters may not always be so +obvious. +</p> + +</div> +<hr> +<div class="nav-panel"> +<p> +Next: <a href="if_002dthen.html">if-then</a>, Previous: <a href="Conditionals-and-Loops.html">Conditionals and Loops</a>, Up: <a href="Conditionals-and-Loops.html">Conditionals and Loops</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> + + + +</body> +</html> |