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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
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Subject: Re: problems with "ms" macros
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Date: 14 May 91 16:51:32 GMT
References: <dennis.674182199@syzygy>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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In article <dennis.674182199@syzygy> dennis@socs.uts.edu.au (Dennis Cook) writes:
| I'm using the "ms" macros on a Sun machine, and have run into
| problems on two fronts:
| 
| 1)	When I'm in multi-column mode, how do I skip to the
| 	top of the next column?

	.de bc \" begin column
	.br
	.ne 60
	.br
	.ne 0
	..

| 2)	In the manual entry for "ms" on our system, it describes
| 	a macro called ".TC", which it says will generate a 
| 	table of contents at the end of the document.

  .TC goes at the end of the document and output the data generated by
use of the .H command. Options allow control of how many levels of
heading are displayed, indentation, and formatting.

As:
  .H 1 "Introduction
  .H 2 "Historical perspective
  Blah, blah, blah.
  .H 2 "Objectives
  More blah.
  .H 2 "Future work
  Yet more.
  .H 1 "The XYZ project
  Hopefully lots of sections here.
  .TC
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
        "Most of the VAX instructions are in microcode,
         but halt and no-op are in hardware for efficiency"