henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (10/17/83)
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
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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