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From: naftoli@aecom.UUCP (Robert N. Berlinger)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Re:  Need help with [nt]roff problem
Message-ID: <837@aecom.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 11:09:38 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 26 11:09:38 1984
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> Use of TBL to Format Multi-Column Text   by  W.H. Huggins
>      It is possible to use the  tbl  preprocessor to format text into
> two, three, or more columns, side-by-side, as needed to compare two
> versions of text, or to print text more compactly.

well this will work nicely, however, you need to know the length
of your columns.  MM also has a .2C macro, but it would be nice
if it had support for n column output, as well as a way to force
up to the next column (without doing a .sp and manually bringing
you to the next column, ughh!).
-- 
Robert Berlinger
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