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From: jeff@ism780c.isc.com (Jeff Copeland)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: strange troff -mm page number spacing
Keywords: troff -mm "table of contents"
Message-ID: <18380@ism780c.isc.com>
Date: 21 Oct 88 20:02:02 GMT
References: <703@umb.umb.edu>
Reply-To: jeff@ism780c.UUCP (Jeff Copeland)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <703@umb.umb.edu> rlt@umb.umb.edu (Richard Tenney) writes:
[problems with table of contents in -mm]
>            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 -").  

Has .cs mode gotten accidentally set?  Typically a constant spacing font
is mounted in position 3, same as bold.  Force a reset in the .TY macro,
which is the user exit for TC, and prints "CONTENTS" at the top of the ToC:
	.am TY
	.ev 2
	.cs 3
	.ev
	..