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Multi-page tables with tbl, -me, [nt]roff

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From: David W. Glessner
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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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)
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