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From: jaap@mcvax.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Full text of YASC (actually a n/troff question)
Message-ID: <409@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 20:08:32 EST
Article-I.D.: mcvax.409
Posted: Sat Jan 12 20:08:32 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 00:42:46 EST
References: <199@usl.UUCP>
Reply-To: jaap@mcvax.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
Lines: 16
Summary: RTFM

In article <199@usl.UUCP> sigma@usl.UUCP (Spyridon Triantafyllopoulos) writes:
	>How do you change the line length
	>in the macro package "-ms" ? I tried
	>the .nr LL 7.5 or others, and it 
	>would not work.
	> .....
	>P.S Enter it to the stupid question
	>of the year award, but our local nroff
	>and macro guru is on vacation...

Looks like a nice entry. Why don't you read the manual? Although it
might look a bit obscure in the N/Troff manual, you would have found
out that the .nr request will take default values as units.
Guessing that you want to change the line length to 7.5 Pica's,
you should have said:
	.nr LL 7.5P