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
>>
>>
