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Article #162output from tbl
From: George Sicherman
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 1984 22:20
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 1984 22:20
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For some reason, when tbl writes the actual table entries, it surrounds them with delimiters. Example: input: .TS l l. alpha (T) beta .TE output: ... \&\h'...'^B^Calpha^B\h'...'^Bbeta^C^B ... Does anybody know why? Obviously the delimiters should not be there. Troff badly misplaces the -me special characters because of these spurious delimiters. And of course, if your entries contain all the troff-acceptable control characters, tbl will choose graphics for delimiters. Try it! The fix ought to be to change t8.c to just not print the delimiters. But will that kill something? G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!colonel
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!colonel From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.bugs Subject: output from tbl Message-ID: <905@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 2-Jan-84 17:20:40 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.905 Posted: Mon Jan 2 17:20:40 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Jan-84 01:19:34 EST Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 23