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Article #649Re: Help with Tabs in troff (and nroff)
From: Bob Peirce
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1985 12:00
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1985 12:00
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> 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
You're not alone. We have the same problem in nroff. However, we found
our version worked if you fed it two (2) dummy tab stops:
.ta 0 0 5 41 58
This will set stops at columns 5, 41 and 58. Unfortunately, this does not
do wonders for tbl! I would love to know how to fix it with only a
binary.
--
Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA
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