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From: jaap@mcvax.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: Re: Help with Tabs in troff
Message-ID: <806@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 15:59:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: mcvax.806
Posted: Thu Sep 19 15:59:28 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Sep-85 05:07:09 EDT
References: <257@nrcvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: jaap@mcvax.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
Lines: 21

In article <257@nrcvax.UUCP> terry@nrcvax.UUCP (Terry Grevstad) writes:
 > 
 >          ********  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

You should use TABS instead of \t.
As the manual says, \t will become a tab in copy mode, so when
defining a macro or string.


	--jaap


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