Re: [Groff] Character spacing and spread

[Larry Kollar]

Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> I've just received a message from O'Reilly's style people containing
> this statement:
>
> > However, one thing you can do is set the horizontal scale (or
> > stretch) to 95%, and the character spacing (or spread) to -5%. This
> > will allow for up to 82 characters across the line--more than a
> > screen's width--even with the necessary 0.25" indent all code should
> > have.
>
> I understand roughly what this means, but I don't know exactly, and I
> certainly don't know how to do it with groff.  Can somebody help?

May I refer you to a posting of Ted Harding's from last February:

        http://ffii.org/archive/mails/groff/2002/Feb/0022.html

In short, you decrease the point size then increase the character
height (effectively creating a compressed/narrow font). I've used
this handy tip a couple of times.

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