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From: jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Troff question
Message-ID: <6188@segue.segue.com>
Date: 11 Feb 91 00:26:22 GMT
References: <1235@sjfc.UUCP> <15125@smoke.brl.mil>
Reply-To: jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter)
Organization: Segue Software, Inc. - Santa Monica, CA. +1-213-453-2161
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In article <15125@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>.nf
>
>Surely the manual tells you this?

Doug, clean off your glasses and reread the request.  The guy wants this input

this looks like
quite a
mess

to produce this output:

this                          looks                          like
quite                                                           a
mess

or at least he says he does.  How would .nf do this?  Try:

.ad b
.fi
this looks like\p
quite a\p
mess\p


It's all in TFM under "Text Filling, Adjusting and Centering", BTW.
\p is kinda hard to miss if you aren't too lazy to look.