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From: alastair@axis.UUCP (Alastair Adamson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: troff 'Keep' Question
Message-ID: <777@axis.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 07:00:48 EST
Article-I.D.: axis.777
Posted: Mon Dec  8 07:00:48 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 8-Dec-86 21:33:55 EST
References: <106500001@datacube>
Reply-To: alastair@axis.UUCP (Alastair Adamson)
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In article <106500001@datacube> dje@datacube.UUCP writes:
>
>Does  anyone  know  a  trick  for  fooling  troff  into  removing its
>proportional spacing temporarily?   The  'keep' commands  .DS .DE are
>still proportionally spaced in troff.  
>
>				Dave Erickson

If your printer accepts it, you can use a constant-width font
in which all characters have the same width - this is used typically
when including example of programs since the output looks much
more like that which would be produced on a line-printer. The command
	.ft CW
changes to this font, if it is mounted.
Alternatively, the request .cs can be used to set a constant
character width, where you specify yourself the width to be used.