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Re: Footers in ez??

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From: Nathaniel Borenstein
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 1990 14:37
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There's always the tried-and-true "fall back to troff" method -- just
add the appropriate troff commands and wrap them in a "FormatNote"
environment.  It isn't pretty, but it works.  I'd tell you what the
troff commands are, except that I'm at home and my troff manuals are at
work.  I think it invoves ".de fo" or something like that. 

There's been regular talk about a "formatting control" inset that you
could place in a document and interact with to produce things like this,
instead of having to know the raw troff yourself.  (Indeed, the
pagebreak object, introduced in the R4 release, is a specialization of
such a beast.)    This is actually something that could be written by
anyone with a little ATK knowledge and a lot of troff savvy.  Any
volunteers out there?
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