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In article <18748@bach.udel.edu>, anita@bach.udel.edu 
  (Anita Zanolini Hoover) writes:
> In article <1992Apr1.151420.5508@bsu-ucs.uucp> 
>  00prneubauer@bsu-ucs.uucp (Paul Neubauer -- me) writes:
> =>Hi folks,
> =>
> =>I have been doing some fairly odd looking things lately and have
> =>gotten some odd looking results from some of them :-(  I was hoping
> =>that someone here could tell me just what stupid things I am doing (or
> =>rather why they are stupid).  In particular, I have a table (sort of)
> => [lots of stuff deleted] 
[including the fact that I was using a tabbing environment]
> 
> Why don't you use the tabular environment.  It is set up to do what
> you want much easier.  Here is your example

Thanks, Anita.  And, BTW, thanks also to Donald Arseneau, who answered
my question in even more detail in email.  I seem to have misplaced
his address.

Actually, the main reason that I was using tabbing instead of tabular
involves the fact that I lied about how simple the table was.  It
really needed 3 or 4 overlapping "columns" like:

A heading
    a subheading of sorts
         And now we get Chunk A.     And Chunk B extends on beyond
                                     for another line or two.
    perhaps another subheading
         Etc.                        ...
Another heading
    another subheading
         Etc.                        ...

It seemed to me that tabbing made more sense than using lots of
\multicolumn's and so forth.  I have now been convinced that I should
have gone the route of tabular with a bunch of funny \multicolumn
things in macros, but it seemed like more work at the time.

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