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Article #6689Re: TROFF Leaders inside fields.
From: Jaap Akkerhuis
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 17:47
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 17:47
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.text: 6-Jan-90 TROFF Leaders inside fields.
Henry -- S. Products@Sun (1546)
> Calling all TROFF Wizards. There seems to be a limitation
> with what you can do with the leader character inside a
> field. I have a sequence something like:
etc.
> Are fields scanned twice?
Yep. It is not a great idea too use leaders inside fields, but if you
really have to, this works:
.ta 4.0i \" tab at four inches
.fc # @ \" field char is #, pad is @
.nf
#string one \s6^A\s0# \" want the leader smaller size
#string string two\s6^A#
#\s0string three \s6^A#
(Replace the ^A with the actual leader character)
There are of course better ways to achieve the same effect. That is left
over as an excercise to the reader.
jaap
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