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From: bturner@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: troff magic
Message-ID: <101870001@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Sep 88 17:12:19 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> I understand everything except the "|0".  I assume it is the
> N argument for the line drawing function, \l'Nc'.

Yes, it is the N part of Nc.  The prefix '|' means relative to
the current position, horizontally or vertically.  (This I pulled
from the HP Nroff/Troff manual, page 12)

--Bill Turner