From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Stupid troff questions.
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 12:03:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EBBAC015-5C90-464C-B34A-77277C589F4A@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W7i55LQT5e33Hyvj9yTe1YBbN7g81PpoJzDcgLkE9yh7g@mail.gmail.com>
On 2012-06-07, at 11:35 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
> I want to use .2C in ms documents to enter two-column mode. However,
> this seems to force insertion of a paragraph break space, which I do
> not want; I can't find any documentation on how to turn that off, and
> reading troff macros isn't that fun. Does anyone know avoid the extra
> shot of vertical whitespace? (In the meanwhile, I used me on Unix to
> do what I needed to do.)
Probably easiest to just .sp the appropriate negative distance just before the .2C.
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2012-06-07 18:35 Dan Cross
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