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Re: ?roff Man page help sought

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From: Bruce Lilly
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:22
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In article <1992Dec21.113202.14229@cas.org> lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) wrote:
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>	key[, key2, key3]	First line of description
>				possibly continued
>				to two or more lines.
>
>Is there a std macro which would allow me to lay out things in this format?

If you want tabular layout, the best choice would be to use tbl. That way
you can have column headers that are repeated if the table spans across a
page boundary.

I suppose you could get the mm macro package's .VL list macro to do want you
want, if you really want to do it the hard way.

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Subject: Re: ?roff Man page help sought
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