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Article #1111Multi-page tables with tbl, -me, [nt]roff
From: David W. Glessner
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1989 18:58
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1989 18:58
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I'm having trouble getting tbl, [nt]roff, and -me to produce tables that cross page boundaries. I'm using the ".TS H" and ".TH" macros to define the header to be printed on the table continuation. We're running SunOS 3.5. The second table should cross from page 1 to page 2. About 9 pages of output are produced, including two "Cannot do ev." error messages. I used this command line: tbl junk.me | nroff -me | col | less. Troff also has the bug. Sun support staff basically said, "Ask the net." Followups have been directed to comp.text. David quintro!bpdsun1!dwg@lll-winken.llnl.gov uunet!tiamat!quintro!bpdsun1!dwg ---- file: junk.me ---- .he ''top %'' .fo ''bottom %'' .sh 1 "Test Header" Line .sp 35 with 35 lines in the middle. .TS H center box tab (/) ; c s ltw(1i) ltw(1i) . First Table .TH AAAAAA/Right BBBBBB/Right .TE .TS H center box tab (/) ; c s ltw(1i) ltw(1i) . Second Table .TH AAAAAA/Right BBBBBB/Right .TE --------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tiamat!quintro!bpdsun1!dwg From: dwg@bpdsun1.uucp (David W. Glessner) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.unix.questions Subject: Multi-page tables with tbl, -me, [nt]roff Message-ID: <1989Oct24.185825.21420@bpdsun1.uucp> Date: 24 Oct 89 18:58:25 GMT Reply-To: dwg@bpdsun1.UUCP (David W. Glessner) Followup-To: comp.text Organization: Harris Broadcast Div., Quincy, IL Lines: 48