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Article #149A hard to find problem with tbl
From: davidsen
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 1990 21:00
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 1990 21:00
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I was bitten by this error once before and it took several days to
find it. This time it took about a half hour, so I'll remind you that it
exists.
When using tbl, if a field is on several lines bracketed by T{, as:
fld 1@T{
fld 2 line 1
fld 2 line 2
T}@fld 3
If there is a blank following the "T{" for any field tbl will do many
strange things, none of which help to identify the problem. This
includes setting the field widths wrong, blowing up with "line too long"
errors, etc.
Hope this saves someone some time!
--
bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!usc!apple!zorba!dtynan From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com Newsgroups: comp.unix Subject: A hard to find problem with tbl Message-ID: <3683@zorba.Tynan.COM> Date: 13 Jul 90 21:00:49 GMT Sender: dtynan@zorba.Tynan.COM Reply-To: uunet!crdos1.crd.ge.com!davidsen Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center Lines: 22 Approved: dtynan@zorba.Tynan.COM X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (6.5 4/17/89)