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1.1     ! root        1: .TH RULER 9.1
        !             2: .CT 1 comm_term
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: ruler \- measure things on the screen
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B ruler
        !             7: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !             8: .I Ruler
        !             9: measures things on a
        !            10: .IR mux (9.1)
        !            11: screen.
        !            12: Press button 1 to sweep out a rectangle anywhere on the screen.
        !            13: For each rectangle swept,
        !            14: .I ruler
        !            15: displays the coordinates of the rectangle's corners (labeled
        !            16: .B down
        !            17: and
        !            18: .BR up ),
        !            19: the size
        !            20: of the rectangle and length of its diagonal.
        !            21: .LP
        !            22: There is
        !            23: a menu on button 3.
        !            24: The
        !            25: .B pixels
        !            26: and
        !            27: .B chars
        !            28: items control whether the size and diagonal are measured
        !            29: in units of pixels or characters;
        !            30: .B stop
        !            31: deactivates
        !            32: .I ruler
        !            33: without exiting;
        !            34: .B measure
        !            35: reactivates
        !            36: .IR ruler .
        !            37: .SH BUGS
        !            38: Character units are arbitrarily defined as the width and height of a 
        !            39: .L 0
        !            40: in the
        !            41: .I ruler
        !            42: layer.
        !            43: This may have nothing to do with character sizes in other layers.
        !            44: .br
        !            45: Ruler's menu must pop up in its own layer, perhaps far
        !            46: away from the cursor.

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