[nt]roff macros for ptx(1) output
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.UUCP
Tue Oct 18 03:54:45 AEST 1983
ut-sally!riddle asked for macros to get decent-looking output from
the stuff ptx(1) puts out. I'm posting this to a wider audience
because it is probably of wider interest. After running into this
issue here, I added the following to our ptx(1) manual page:
.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
--
Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry
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