Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!mcvax!jaap 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