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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
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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.)

-- 
\"\t\f1A\h'+1m'\f4\(mo\h'+1m'\f1the\h'+1m'\f4\(es\t\f1\c
_______________________________________________________________________

                                                       Terry Grevstad
                                         Network Research Corporation
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