Funny you should mention this. I know there is a way (done for patent applications). I think I can find it in the troff doc. I have to by tomorrow so I'll report back.
brucee On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Steve Simon <st...@quintile.net> wrote: > macros are easy enough: start them with .de XX and end them with .., e.g. > start and end code example which I end up adding to most documents I write: > > .de EX > .nj > .nf > .CW > .SM > .. > > .de EE > .fi > .ju > .LG > .R > .. > > There are quite a few books, see http://www.troff.org/ , my favorite is > "Document formatting & typsetting on the UNIX system". > > I really don't know how you would add line numbers, if you are lucky there > may be a well-known macro which is run at the start of every line... > > -Steve > >