Troff question

[Jim Balter]

In article <15125 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>.nf
>
>Surely the manual tells you this?

Doug, clean off your glasses and reread the request.  The guy wants this input

this looks like
quite a
mess

to produce this output:

this                          looks                          like
quite                                                           a
mess

or at least he says he does.  How would .nf do this?  Try:

.ad b
.fi
this looks like\p
quite a\p
mess\p


It's all in TFM under "Text Filling, Adjusting and Centering", BTW.
\p is kinda hard to miss if you aren't too lazy to look.