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- From: mick@dcs.bbk.ac.uk (Mick Farmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.text
- Subject: Re: ?roff Man page help sought
- Message-ID: <mick.724944959@picus>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 13:35:59 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.113202.14229@cas.org>
- Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium
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- Hi,
-
- Larry Virden asks for help in generating text of the form
-
- key1, key2, ... Text description,
- possibly on multiple
- lines.
-
- I do this regularly using the -ms macros by using the ".IP"
- macro with the desired indent. Here's an example
-
- .IP "at, atq, atrm" 3i
- Commands involving jobs that are executed
- at specific times. See manual pages.
- .IP "lp, lpq, lpstat" 3i
- Commands involving the printing of files
- on paper (usuall). See manual pages.
-
- where the text in the right is indented by three inches.
-
- Regards,
-
- Mick
-