How to kill proportional Spacing on the &%$# Typesetter?

[Jaap Akkerhuis]

In article <4109 at umcp-cs.UUCP> chris at umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
 > Surprise!  Standard troff doesn't have any fixed width fonts.  I don't
 > know what (if any) fonts supplied with itroff are fixed width.
 > 
 > One horrible kludge is to use the \z and \h commands to force fixed width
 > characters.  However, it looks awful.  If you must use it, try (e.g.)
 > 
 >    \z'A'\h'15u'\z'B'\h'15u'
 > 

A better way to do this is to use the .cs request. But it will still look
horrible.