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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu,  5 Mar 2015 06:15:22 -0800
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Subject: Re: [9fans] unexpected tabs in man pages after font change
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> Interestingly enough the problem disappears with a mono font.
>
> I suspect that troff is inserting such tabs instead of spaces when it
> thinks they are the same. Indeed libframe (as far I could understand from
> the manual and the sources) properly handles such variable width fonts.
>
> Looks like I've to inform troff about the glyphs sizes... but how?

i don't use a mono font so i don't like your col -x solution, and this
works for me regardless.

if $font is set correctly, i believe all this should work out.  make sure
that $tabstop=acme tabstop as well.  the default for acme is 4, but
it is imported by $tabstop, and overridden with Tab.

cpu'ing can screw with your $font.

- erik