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From: krishnan@hplabsb.UUCP (N K Krishnan)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Constant-width macros for MM
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Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 09:53:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 27 09:53:00 1987
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dave>I have used these for about 6 months, outputting to an Imagen 8/300.  In that 
dave>time the only strange behavior (which I would like to know how to fix) is:
dave>1)  There is a slight, but noticable, gap of space in front of a word set in 
dave>   constant width type with any of .C, .CR, .CI, .CB

bill> The reason for the gap is that the interword gap in  troff is 1/3 "m".
bill> In other words, it depends on the general width of the font in effect.
bill> If  you have different fonts before  and after an interword gap, troff
bill> uses the "m" of the trailing font, in this case \f(CW.

This is certainly a good tip, but in the example Dave had no interword gap!
It looked something like 
	blah1\f(CWblah2\fPblah3

	=== krishnan@hplabs