brad@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Brad Appleton) (01/10/91)
I am using troff with NO macro packages and I am trying to write
a macro which, given 4 arguments, will print the following:
arg1 arg2 arg3 arg4
Where:
"arg1" starts at the beginning of the line,
"arg2" starts at 1inch from the beginning of the line,
"arg3" is ``perfectly'' centered between arg2 & arg4, and
"arg4" ends at the maximum possible end of the line.
I have tried the following (remember I am not using any macros packages
like -ms or -mm etc, nor do I wish to):
.ds LL 6.5i
.ds IL 1.0i
.\"-------------------
.ll \*(LL
.ta \*(IL \*(LLR
.\"-------------------
.de MM
.nf
.\"-----------------------------------------------------------------
.\"-- find the number of total "spaces" between arg2 and arg 4
.\"-- and divide the result by 2
.\"-----------------------------------------------------------------
.nr XX (\*(LL-\*(IL-\w'\\$2'u-\w'\\$3'u-\w'\\$4'u)/2
\&\\$1\t\\$2\h'\\n(XX'\\$3\t\\$4
.br
.fi
..
This is not working (the third argument is not in the desired place).
I have tried using tbl(1) instead but seem to have a problem using
.TS and .TE inside a macro definition.
If anyone has any solutions to this I would be much obliged. Tbl solutions
are okay too but I would prefer just plain {n,t}roff. Solutions using any
of the standard macro packages (-me, -mm, -ms, etc ...) are NOT wanted.
advTHANXance
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