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Article #2535Re: eqn and tbl (old problem)
From: nils-peter.nelson
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 1991 15:57
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 1991 15:57
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Dick Dunn says: >No intent to flame Peter, but since most of us don't have (and can't get:-( >DWB 3.x, a little software archaeology may be helpful. The equation- >within-table example persists in BSD manuals to this day, although it may >have been dropped from some of the AT&T manuals in the interregnum. When I preface any of my replies by "In DBW 3.1..." all I intend to say is "It works in DWB 3.1 and I'm too lazy to see if it also works in DWB 2.0, groff, SunOS troff, etc." I'll leave it to others to report whether older versions support a particular feature. I work in Bell Laboratories, not the Smithsonian, so I'm more interested in current and future developments than past. In this particular case, the original poster claimed to have searched all appropriate documentation with no success, and I took him at his word. As Dick indicates, *all* tbl documentation, no matter how old, seems to include the instruction to pipe tbl into eqn.
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