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Article #2093need help with vertical spanning in DITROFF tables
From: Beverly Seavey (-Kung)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 1990 16:51
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 1990 16:51
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I am trying to create a table using ditroff and tbl. The last column
has a block of text. I want the entries in the other columns, which
each occupy one line only to be centered up and down relative to the block of text:
____________________________________________________
| | | | | Lots of text here, which |
| x | y | z | w | happens to run on for |
|_____|_____|_____|_____|_three lines...____________|
| | | | | Second entry in this field|
| a | b | c | d | I couldn't draw both text |
|_____|_____|_____|_____|_draw_both_text_and_dashes_|
If for these line I have :
a a a a a.
_
\t \t \t \t T{ /* space-tab-space-tab...*/
.na
Lots of text here, which happens to run on for three lines...
T}
_
x\ty\tz\tw\t\^ /* x y z w , pull down text from 1st line */
\t \t \t \t \^ /* space-tab-space-tab... pull down text from 1st line */
.....and so on.... .
Instead,for the 1st row I get what looks like:
_______________________________________________________
| | | | | Lots of text, which happens |
| | | | | to run one, for |
| | | | | three lines... |
| x | y | z | w | |
|_____|_____|_____|_____|______________________________|
i.e., the formatter waits until after the text field has taken up its 3
lines before even starting the 2nd row for the other fields.
As far as I can tell, this is analogous to the "Interesting places"
example in Unix TBL documentation.
Just for kicks, I tried putting the text as the first column. THat didn't
help either. Am I doing something wrong or is our tbl not the same as the
one documented?
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