Need help with [nt]roff problem
Robert N. Berlinger
naftoli at aecom.UUCP
Thu Sep 27 01:09:38 AEST 1984
> Use of TBL to Format Multi-Column Text by W.H. Huggins
> It is possible to use the tbl preprocessor to format text into
> two, three, or more columns, side-by-side, as needed to compare two
> versions of text, or to print text more compactly.
well this will work nicely, however, you need to know the length
of your columns. MM also has a .2C macro, but it would be nice
if it had support for n column output, as well as a way to force
up to the next column (without doing a .sp and manually bringing
you to the next column, ughh!).
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Robert Berlinger
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