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Article #3995Re: Constant-width macros for MM
From: Dave Wolverton
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1987 18:01
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1987 18:01
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In article <59900002@hplabsb.UUCP>, krishnan@hplabsb.UUCP (N K Krishnan) writes: > 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 The problem I reported DID occur with an interword gap, but it was not eplicit in the macros. Given This is a sentence in Roman except .C this is in CW. this would format like so This is a sentence in Roman except this is in CW. ^^ "Extra" space Dave Wolverton AT&T ihnp4!houxs!daw
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!homxb!houxs!daw From: daw@houxs.UUCP (Dave Wolverton) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Constant-width macros for MM Message-ID: <511@houxs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 14:01:55 EDT Article-I.D.: houxs.511 Posted: Mon Aug 31 14:01:55 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Sep-87 06:52:54 EDT References: <507@houxs.UUCP> <59900002@hplabsb.UUCP> Organization: AT&T End User Organization, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 26