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From: daw@houxs.UUCP (Dave Wolverton)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Constant-width macros for MM
Message-ID: <511@houxs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 14:01:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: houxs.511
Posted: Mon Aug 31 14:01:55 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Sep-87 06:52:54 EDT
References: <507@houxs.UUCP> <59900002@hplabsb.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T End User Organization, Holmdel, NJ
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In article <59900002@hplabsb.UUCP>, krishnan@hplabsb.UUCP (N K Krishnan) writes:
> 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

The problem I reported DID occur with an interword gap, but it was not eplicit
in the macros.  Given

	This is a sentence in Roman except
	.C this
	is in CW.

this would format like so

	This is a sentence in Roman except  this is in CW.
	                                  ^^
					"Extra" space

Dave Wolverton
AT&T
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