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From: suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: Re: Re: column help wanted
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 17:45:27 EDT
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> > I am using (old) troff and -me macros on a VAX (4.1bsd and 4.2bsd).
> > The column macros (.2c, .1c, and .bc) do a nice job with columns, but
> > if the text fills up less than a full page, you end up with something
> > like a full length left column and a partial right column. .......
> > .........
> 
> Sounds like the perfect place to use 'tbl' rather than not too well
> designed macros.
> 

Except tbl doesn't fill or adjust the text. I've even tried
using the "{T" and "}T" to get it to print more than one line.
No good. If it worked, it'd be a nice solution.

Another way is to run a draft, figure out where it should
break and then go back and insert a ".bc".
-- 
Suzanne Barnett-Scott

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