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Article #2115Re: need help with vertical spanning in DITROFF tables
From: Henry McGilton
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 1990 01:58
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 1990 01:58
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In article <11739@spool.cs.wisc.edu>, beverly@ai.cs.wisc.edu (Beverly Seavey (-Kung)) writes:
* 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.
* . . . and so on . . .
Vertical spanning of a type columns in ditroff is BROKEN beyond
all belief. Try using l type columns instead and see what you get.
........ Henry
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!angel.Eng.Sun.COM!henry From: henry@angel.Eng.Sun.COM (Henry McGilton) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: need help with vertical spanning in DITROFF tables Summary: a format broken Message-ID: <3057@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 19 Nov 90 01:58:09 GMT References: <11739@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Lines: 21