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+Previous: <a href="Device-Control-Commands.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Device Control Commands</a>, Up: <a href="Command-Reference.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Command Reference</a> &nbsp; [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Request-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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+<h4 class="subsubsection" id="Obsolete-Command-1">6.1.2.5 Obsolete Command</h4>
+<p>In <abbr class="acronym">AT&amp;T</abbr> <code class="code">troff</code> output, the writing of a single glyph is
+mostly done by a very strange command that combines a horizontal move
+and a single character giving the glyph name. It doesn&rsquo;t have a command
+code, but is represented by a 3-character argument consisting of exactly
+2&nbsp;digits and a character.
+</p>
+<dl class="table">
+<dt><var class="var">dd</var><var class="var">g</var></dt>
+<dd><p>Move right <var class="var">dd</var> (exactly two decimal digits) basic units &lsquo;<samp class="samp">u</samp>&rsquo;,
+then print glyph&nbsp;<var class="var">g</var> (represented as a single character).
+</p>
+<p>In GNU <code class="code">troff</code>, arbitrary syntactical space around and within this
+command is allowed. Only when a preceding command on the same line ends
+with an argument of variable length is a separating space obligatory.
+In <abbr class="acronym">AT&amp;T</abbr> <code class="code">troff</code>, large clusters of these and other
+commands are used, mostly without spaces; this made such output almost
+unreadable.
+</p></dd>
+</dl>
+
+<p>For modern high-resolution devices, this command does not make sense
+because the width of the glyphs can become much larger than two decimal
+digits. In <code class="code">gtroff</code>, this is only used for the devices <code class="code">X75</code>,
+<code class="code">X75-12</code>, <code class="code">X100</code>, and <code class="code">X100-12</code>. For other devices, the
+commands &lsquo;<samp class="samp">t</samp>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<samp class="samp">u</samp>&rsquo; provide a better functionality.
+</p>
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