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Re: How to make ".sz N" stay?

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From: Peter Gross
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1985 04:17
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> In -me there is a command .sz N for changing the font size.  After .ip,
> .lp, .he, etc., the font size, however, returns to the standard size 10p.  
> How should I change the .sz macro so that the selected point size stays
> in effect through the rest of the document?  I have already tried
> .nr pp N, but the result was chaotic.
> 
>        Thanks,  Juha Heinanen {ut-sally, akgua}!usl!jih

Here's our local macro ".*s", which changes font sizes for everything
(except equations) in the -me macros.

.\" *s change point size -- pag
.de *s
.nr pp \\$1
.nr tp \\$1
.if \n(sp=0 \
.	nr sp 10
.nr sp \\$1
.sz \\$1
..

--peter gross
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--peter gross
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From: pag@hao.UUCP (Peter Gross)
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Subject: Re: How to make ".sz N" stay?
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Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 23:17:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  5 23:17:00 1985
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