terry@nrcvax.UUCP (Terry Grevstad) (10/10/85)
For those of you out there who seem to have had the same problems that I did in getting tabs to work in troff, I found a nifty little solution. Putting tabs into a macro makes the "\t" command work, but sometimes putting things into macro form is more hassle than it's worth. SO... define a string as the "\t" command. It works just fine. I did it like this: .nf .ta 1i 3i 5i .tc .ds T \t \*TThe\*Ttabs\*Twork \*Tjust\*Tfine\*Tnow and, if you have a terminal with programmable keys, you can program your \*T into one of the keys and use it instead of a tab key. I don't know why tabs per se won't work for me. Maybe my terminal just doesn't create the appropriate tab character (Wyse 75), maybe "vi" doesn't. But they *DON'T* work, so don't bother flaming me and insisting they *DO* work. I'm just happy I've discovered a relatively painless way to get the output I want. And, since I'm obviously not the only person with this problem by the amount of mail I received regarding my original posting, I thought I would pass along what I have learned. -- \"\t\f1A\h'+1m'\f4\(mo\h'+1m'\f1the\h'+1m'\f4\(es\t\f1\c _______________________________________________________________________ Terry Grevstad Network Research Corporation {sdcsvax,hplabs}!sdcrdcf!psivax!nrcvax!terry ucbvax!calma!nrcvax!terry