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Re: Leaders

From: Peter Schaffter
Subject: Re: Leaders
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 17:41:36 -0400 
On Mon, Sep 04, 2023, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> I think leaders are meant to be used in conjunction with
> diversions.  When they are used in already formatted text,
> all required dimensions are known, allowing n/troff to
> compute the number of leader character repetitions plus any
> possibly required additional space.  See the attached example.

The example was enormously helpful.  There's light at the end of my
TOC multi-line entry tunnel.

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Peter Schaffter
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