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Article #5871Re: HELP! with boxed tables using MM, tbl
From: William R. Pearson
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1989 22:04
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1989 22:04
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>Any other favorite bugs in UNIX\(rg text processing? My favorites
>come from the fact that it is all interpreted and chained and there
>is no way to truly integrate. Others come from the 2 character
>restrictions on names. Oh, yeah, most tbl(1) implementations allow
>only 100 text blocks. C'm'on guys, in computer science is 100
>really such a large number?????
This week I encountered a more intransigent bug in tbl -
how to get double spacing inside of text blocks T{,T}. Several
of the things that I tried ended up spacing the text block down
one line. None worked satifactorily. I would appreciate any suggestions
on how to format the following table:
.TS
center box;
c c l.
col1<TAB>col2<TAB>T{
this is a very long text block that takes several lines
}T
.TE
and have the text block be double spaced, without changing the .vs
for the whole table.
Bill Pearson
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!uvaarpa!hudson!biochsn!wrp From: wrp@biochsn.acc.virginia.edu (William R. Pearson) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.misc Subject: Re: HELP! with boxed tables using MM, tbl Keywords: MM tbl Message-ID: <1169@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> Date: 22 Feb 89 22:04:19 GMT References: <946@mtuxj.att.com> <1085@hsi.UUCP> <8909@alice.UUCP> <4801@houxa.ATT.COM> Sender: news@hudson.acc.virginia.edu Reply-To: wrp@biochsn.acc.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Virginia, Charlottesville Lines: 26