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From: rlt@umb.umb.edu (Richard Tenney)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: strange troff -mm page number spacing
Keywords: troff -mm "table of contents"
Message-ID: <703@umb.umb.edu>
Date: 21 Oct 88 01:51:30 GMT
Organization: UMASS-Boston, Boston, MA
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    I should appreciate whatever help you may be able to offer with the
following strange troff problem.
    When I use the .TC macro to produce the table of contents with the
mm macros, it redefines the bottom-of-page string }b with the command
     .ds}b ''- \\\\n(;g -''
where the register ;g is used for the page number and is set to print in
lowercase Roman numerals.  The only unusual feature is that I have set
the environment (2) to print in bold; other than that, it is a normal
mm set up.  When the first two pages print, the page number in the
footer is spread far too wide, meaning that the page number looks like
"-     i     -" or like "-     i   i     -" centered in the middle of
the page.  For page three, the spacing looks normal (something like
"- iii -").  (I have only three pages of table of contents, so I don't
know what it would do on subsequent pages).
     Any ideas?
     Thanks - 
        Richard Tenney
        rlt@umb.edu
        (rlt%umb.edu@relay.cs.net)