How to determine troff char. widths???

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From: Jerold J. Colwell
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1989 13:50

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I'm trying to make sense of the files troff uses to
store the widths of its characters.  Can anyone tell
me how the character widths are stored in these files?
More specifically, how can I extract them?

Please e-mail any suggestions.

Thanks,
Jerry

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From: jjc@edsdrd.eds.com (Jerold J. Colwell)
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Subject: How to determine troff char. widths???
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Date: 5 Jun 89 13:50:58 GMT
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