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Article #644Help with Tabs in troff
From: Terry Grevstad
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1985 19:23
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1985 19:23
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******** HELP! ********
This is driving me crazy. No matter what I try, I can't get the tab
stops to work right in troff. It just ignores any tab (or leader)
command I give it. I set the tabs with the .ta command as in the
following:
.ta 2i 4i
I'm in no fill mode. I call the tabs like so:
\t134\t135
\t136\t137
and when the stuff comes out it looks like this:
134135
136137
WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? Any suggestions, ideas, recommendations will
be deeply appreciated. Please, no snickers, guffaws, or obnoxious
noises, I *am* relatively new at this and I don't usually use tabs.
(tbl works very well, thank you, but not for this particular
problem.)
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\"\t\f1A\h'+1m'\f4\(mo\h'+1m'\f1the\h'+1m'\f4\(es\t\f1\c
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Terry Grevstad
Network Research Corporation
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site nrcvax.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!psivax!nrcvax!terry From: terry@nrcvax.UUCP (Terry Grevstad) Newsgroups: net.text Subject: Help with Tabs in troff Message-ID: <257@nrcvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 15:23:37 EDT Article-I.D.: nrcvax.257 Posted: Fri Sep 13 15:23:37 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 04:33:11 EDT Reply-To: terry@nrcvax.UUCP (Terry Grevstad) Organization: Network Research Research Corp. Oxnard,CA Lines: 33