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- Autzoo.1287
- net.bugs.v7
- utcsrgv!utzoo!henry
- Tue Jan 19 01:35:19 1982
- ptx(1) obscurity
- The manual page for ptx gives a fairly good description of the program,
- but it is not obvious to non-troff-hackers how to get decent formatting
- of the output (i.e. what ".xx" macro to supply). After digging through
- the stuff used to prepare the manual and doing a bit of experimenting,
- I added the following to our ptx(1) manual page (sorry about all the
- backslashes, that's troff for you):
-
- .SH EXAMPLE
- The following is a reasonably-minimal
- set of
- .I nroff
- statements which will format
- .I ptx
- output reasonably; the style is similar to the index for this manual.
- The spacings may need adjustment for different output devices.
- .PP
- .RS
- .nf
- \&.de xx
- \&.if !""\\\\$1" \\\\$1\\fI\\a\\fR\\\\$2\\t\\\\$3\\fI\\a\\fR\\t\\\\$5
- \&.if !""\\\\$4" \\t\\\\$2\\t\\\\$3\\fI\\a\\fR\\\\$4\\t\\\\$5
- \&.if ""\\\\$1\\\\$4" \\t\\\\$2\\t\\\\$3\\fI\\a\\fR\\t\\\\$5
- \&..
- \&.nf
- \&.ta 3.7iR 3.95iL 7.65iR 7.8iR
- .RE
-