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- From: bruce@blilly.UUCP (Bruce Lilly)
- Subject: Re: ?roff Man page help sought
- References: <1992Dec21.113202.14229@cas.org>
- Organization: Bruce Lilly
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 15:22:44 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.152244.1150@blilly.UUCP>
- Reply-To: lilb@sony.comuserve.com (Bruce Lilly)
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- In article <1992Dec21.113202.14229@cas.org> lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) wrote:
- >
- > key[, key2, key3] First line of description
- > possibly continued
- > to two or more lines.
- >
- >Is there a std macro which would allow me to lay out things in this format?
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- If you want tabular layout, the best choice would be to use tbl. That way
- you can have column headers that are repeated if the table spans across a
- page boundary.
-
- I suppose you could get the mm macro package's .VL list macro to do want you
- want, if you really want to do it the hard way.
-
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