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Re: troff .DC macro for drop caps, version 2.0

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From: Bruce G. Barnett
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 1988 19:26
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In article <688@houxs.UUCP> daw@houxs.UUCP (David Wolverton) writes:
|Can someone figure out how to modify the macro to do this? 

fiddle with the line that says:
.nr pS (\\n(nL*\\n(.L*\\n(.v/10)+(35*\\n(fS*(3*\\n(nL-4)/200)

change the value to 35 to something larger.

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	Bruce G. Barnett 	<barnett@ge-crd.ARPA> <barnett@steinmetz.UUCP>
				uunet!steinmetz!barnett
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From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett)
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Subject: Re: troff .DC macro for drop caps, version 2.0
Message-ID: <4021@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 7 Mar 88 19:26:04 GMT
References: <561@agsm.unsw.oz> <688@houxs.UUCP>
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Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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