Re: [Groff] Line-drawing escape

[Miklos Somogyi]

Clarke,

Thank you, but I think that left- and right alignment works without 
referring to tabs in any way.
The reason I am interested in this `line drawing' scheme is that, if it 
works, it can be used
in many other cases as well.

Thanks,
Miklos

On 29/11/2006, at 3:25 AM, Clarke Echols wrote:

> If you are operating in no-fill mode, why not use .tc to define the
> tab character?  You can then set up the left-right justification and
> troff/groff replaces a tab character between left-hand and right-hand
> text with a multiple series of the character defined by .tc.  You
> have to use .ta <dimension> R to get the right-aligned segment where
> <dimesion> identifies the location of the right-hand margin and R
> indicates right-justified text to that margin.
>
> This is commonly used when constructing a table of contents or index
> page.  I think it's called a "leader" (fading memory :-) ).