.nm is your friend. brucee
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Sape Mullender <s...@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote: > I think at the top of the page you set a trap to go off at the next line. > In the trap macro you reset the trap for the line after that. And so on, > down the page. > > Sape > >> 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 >>> >>> > > >
