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From: john@csp...
Subject: Re: [9fans] troff .XP
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:39:34 -0400

> After a long day writing a paper for my psych class, it came time for
> me to make the reference page, using the APA format (see
> http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/06/).  I was looking at
> an online troff manual, which said that the .XP macro in the MS macro
> set should do exactly what I want for the references...  but we don't
> seem to have .XP in Plan 9 troff.
> 
> Has anyone here written a similar macro for Plan 9?  I'm a bit fried
> after a lot of paper-writing and some Matlab work this afternoon or
> I'd try to figure something out from the troff manual.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> John

Really what I want here is .HP from -man but if I use -man I get
really ugly fonts...  yet if I copy over the .de HP chunk from tmac.an
into my .ms file, the formatting doesn't work properly.

John