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From: rbp@investor.UUCP (Bob Peirce)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: Re: Help with Tabs in troff (and nroff)
Message-ID: <248@investor.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 08:00:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: investor.248
Posted: Thu Sep 19 08:00:13 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Sep-85 05:52:08 EDT
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Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA
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> 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

You're not alone.  We have the same problem in nroff.  However, we found
our version worked if you fed it two (2) dummy tab stops:

			.ta 0 0 5 41 58

This will set stops at columns 5, 41 and 58. Unfortunately, this does not
do wonders for tbl!  I would love to know how to fix it with only a
binary.
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