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How do I embed fixed-width font text in a TROFF document?  I use
"ptroff -man" for manual pages and "ptroff -ms" for documents on
a Sun workstation and I wish to display examples of C code, for
instance, within the text.

The manual pages for VxWorks (a UNIX-like, real-time operating
system) display their code examples in fixed-width fonts.  I
examined the source to the manual pages and they used ".CS"/".CE"
macros (if I remember correctly) to display the code examples;
unfortunately, these macros are defined on the Sun's to simply
display the code as bold text.  I also looked at the same macro
definitions on an HP/UX workstation and, from what I could gather
from the comments, it looked like the fixed-width font takes the
place of the italics font (or something like that - I haven't
looked at it recently).

I see fixed-width fonts used for code examples in published papers
and technical reports all the time.  How do people do it?  Thanks
for any help!

                            Alex Measday
                            Integral Systems, Inc.
                            alex@tpocc.gsfc.nasa.gov