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Article #163Re: output from tbl
From: Jaap Akkerhuis
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1984 14:15
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1984 14:15
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<Well known line> \&\h'...'^B^Calpha^B\h'...'^Bbeta^C^B ... ... Obviously the delimiters should not be there. The fix ought to be to change t8.c to just not print the delimiters. But will that kill something? Well, that will kill tbl completely... Tbl uses the field capabilities of troff. The ^B and the ^C are just the padding indicators and field delimiters, so they have to be there. (See chapter 9 of N/Troff User's Manual, for an explanation of the field mechanism). Troff badly misplaces the -me special characters Do you mean the characters like u\*: (chapter 13 -me reference manual)? Well they work only properly if: 1) You have the Berkeley version of n/troff 2) The definitions of string like \*: is matched to your output device.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC830919); site haring.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!decvax!mcvax!haring!jaap From: jaap@haring.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis) Newsgroups: net.bugs Subject: Re: output from tbl Message-ID: <129@haring.UUCP> Date: Thu, 5-Jan-84 09:15:47 EST Article-I.D.: haring.129 Posted: Thu Jan 5 09:15:47 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 6-Jan-84 03:01:51 EST References: <905@sunybcs.UUCP> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 22