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In article <1993Jan8.175722.13313@ERA.COM>, feit@ERA.COM (Mark Feit) writes...
>I'm typesetting a phone directory for an amateur radio club I belong
>to using plain TeX.  Needing a different format than that of your
>average phone book, I decided on this:
> 
> K3 AB  Don Wilson....................................(410) 936-1212
>         440 Q Street  Hamsville, MD  21012


Depending on what to do in the case of a very long name, this may 
be done easily with just the regular paragraph parameters.  For
this format:

  NK3 P  Alexander Bartholemiew Clayton 
          Donneley........................Omitted at Member's Request
          1296 Repeater Road  Seekyou DE,  14131

there is no need to disassemble boxes.  The following definition does this.
Note the \hangafter=0 and the negative kern instead of \hangafter=1.
This is to ensure the dots of the leaders are aligned.

\def\entry#1#2#3#4{\par  % call, phone, name, address
  \parindent 0pt \hangindent 2cm \hangafter 0 \rightskip 0pt plus .4\hsize
  \noindent \kern-1.5cm \hbox to 1.5cm{#1\hfil\ }% call sign
  \ignorespaces #3% name
  \nobreak \leaders \hbox to.7em{\hfil.\hfil}\hskip 1cm plus 1fil % leaders
  #2\break % phone
  #4\par} % address; could use more parameters for this

\hsize 4in

\entry{K3 AB}{(410) 936-1212}{Don Wilson}{440 Q Street \ Hamsville, MD \ 21012}

\entry{NK3 P}{Omitted at Member's Request}{Alexander Bartholemiew Clayton 
  Donneley}{1296 Repeater Road \  Seekyou, DE \  14131}

\bye  Donald Arseneau         asnd@reg.triumf.ca