On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Larry Kollar wrote:

Is there some reason you can?t use device-independent units like inches or ens?

.in 1i \? One inch indent on all devices
.in 6n \? Six ens, (1 en is roughly the current text size)

Sadly, I was under the 35 year impression you could. But in my letterhead
where I use

        .ti +5i

to offset the date, I realised nroff/groff(tty) and troff/groff(a4) are
only approximately correct.

Regards - Damian

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