Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!clyde!cuae2!ihnp4!alberta!ncc!lyndon From: lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin Subject: Re: Bug in `.ux' macro in 2.11 doc/tmac.n USENET TROFF macros ; fix Message-ID: <1279@ncc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 28-Dec-86 16:46:42 EST Article-I.D.: ncc.1279 Posted: Sun Dec 28 16:46:42 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 29-Dec-86 00:35:39 EST References: <785@smeagol.UUCP> <305@rlgvax.UUCP> Organization: Nexus Computing Corp., Edmonton, AB Lines: 18 Keywords: troff doc/tmac.n 2.11 Xref: mnetor news.software.b:153 news.admin:99 In article <305@rlgvax.UUCP>, dennis@rlgvax.UUCP (Dennis Bednar) writes: < Anybody know what ESCAPE 8 and ESCAPE 9 sequences are in nroff < output? I noticed these in some nroff output of the install < guide in the doc directory. ESC[89] are used to represent vertical half line motions on the line printer. Piping the output through col(1) will fix things... < Also, if I remember correctly, I saw one instance of a control-k < character in nroff output in one of the 2.11 man pages. Again, < any comments? The ^K stuff represents vertical motion indexes (ie vertical tabs). Again, col should deal with this... -- Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM) Systems Group - A Div. of Nexus Computing Corp. UUCP: {ihnp4,ubc-vision,watmath}!alberta!ncc!lyndon BITNET: USERCHNL@UALTAMTS