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From: jeff@mcnc.UUCP (Jeffrey Copeland)
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Subject: Re: (ti)troff question - horizontal motion and drawing arguments
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Date: Thu, 5-Jun-86 09:05:16 EDT
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Yes, you can place expressions in troff motion and line drawing
commands:
	\h'8*\w' 'u' 
moves 8 ems times the width of one space.  You want to say:
	\h'8u*\w' 'u'
or, for better readability:
	\h"8u*\w' 'u"

This works the same way for \l, \L, \v and the \D commands: Just make
sure the units are correct.