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Article #3977Re: Constant-width macros for MM
From: N K Krishnan
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1987 13:53
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1987 13:53
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dave>I have used these for about 6 months, outputting to an Imagen 8/300. In that dave>time the only strange behavior (which I would like to know how to fix) is: dave>1) There is a slight, but noticable, gap of space in front of a word set in dave> constant width type with any of .C, .CR, .CI, .CB bill> The reason for the gap is that the interword gap in troff is 1/3 "m". bill> In other words, it depends on the general width of the font in effect. bill> If you have different fonts before and after an interword gap, troff bill> uses the "m" of the trailing font, in this case \f(CW. This is certainly a good tip, but in the example Dave had no interword gap! It looked something like blah1\f(CWblah2\fPblah3 === krishnan@hplabs
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