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From: sakkinen@tukki.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: troff 3 column output
Message-ID: <1990Oct8.075539.9757@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 8 Oct 90 07:55:39 GMT
References: <210019@vantage.UUCP>
Reply-To: sakkinen@jytko.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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In article <210019@vantage.UUCP> ray@vantage.UUCP (Ray Liere) writes:
>I have been trying (unsuccessfully so far) to write a troff macro that
>will do 3 column output on a page. I started with .2C (2 column output)
>from the -mm library.
>
>I have developed a nice set of macros that do unusual things to text ...
>but not what I want to do!
>
>Does anyone have a .3C that they would be willing to share?

The -me macro package from Berkeley (included in BSD) has a multi-column
macro.  It's called '.2c', but you can give the desired number of columns
as an optional argument.  Try to get '-me'; I think it is in essentially
free distribution.

Markku Sakkinen
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts)
Seminaarinkatu 15
SF-40100 Jyvaskyla (umlauts again)
Finland
          SAKKINEN@FINJYU.bitnet (alternative network address)