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In article <1992Dec21.152244.1150@blilly.UUCP> lilb@sony.comuserve.com (Bruce Lilly) writes:
>In article <1992Dec21.113202.14229@cas.org> lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) wrote:

>>	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.

Lots of man pages use tab settings.  Problem is, of course, that they don't
fill properly.  ".TP" is the proper thing to use.  Like this:

	.TP <indent>
	this is the tag
	this is the rest of the description ...

"indent" is in ens.  (I don't have a manual page for man here at present,
so I perused the macros themselves).

"man 5 man" is usually helpful.

>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.

Trying to use -mm macros in -man is definately the hard way.  Especially
on most non-System V systems where -mm isn't present at all.
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