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Date:Mon Nov 15 13:53:37 1993 
Subject:Tabulation, and pop_charout_col 
From:Robin Popplestone 
Volume-ID:931118.01 

The following procedure is nice and handy as a way of laying things out
in columns if they don't happen to have a fixed print length.

define tabto n;
  if n<0 then nl(1)
  elseif n<pop_charout_col then nl(1); tabto(n)
  else sp(n-pop_charout_col)
  endif
enddefine;

But of course it does not work if you are outputting to anything other
than the "terminal". Now clearly one can program round any problems, but
is there a nice easy way of generating disc-files with tabulated output?

Robin