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Article #639Re: novice tbl user needs help
From: Richard Welty
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1985 04:28
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1985 04:28
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In my own article , I have found a minor oops ...
> tbl insists on stringing the term in the left hand column out on one
> line:
>
> course following instruction An instruction ...
>
>
> I have tried several solutions, such as including .b directives
> in the description of the left hand column:
>
> T{
> course
> .b
> following
> .b
> instruction
> T}
the .b requests should of course be .br (I have the misfortune of sometimes
using DEC Runoff, a terrible program, and sometimes I get confused).
This partially corrects the problem ... to wit:
course An instruction ...
following
instruction
now the left column looks good, but the distance between the left and right
hand columns is unchanged ...
--
Rich Welty
(I am both a part-time grad student at RPI and a full-time
employee of a local CAE firm, and opinions expressed herein
have nothing to do with anything at all)
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