terry@nrcvax.UUCP (Terry Grevstad) (09/13/85)
******** HELP! ******** This is driving me crazy. No matter what I try, I can't get the tab stops to work right in troff. It just ignores any tab (or leader) command I give it. I set the tabs with the .ta command as in the following: .ta 2i 4i I'm in no fill mode. I call the tabs like so: \t134\t135 \t136\t137 and when the stuff comes out it looks like this: 134135 136137 WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? Any suggestions, ideas, recommendations will be deeply appreciated. Please, no snickers, guffaws, or obnoxious noises, I *am* relatively new at this and I don't usually use tabs. (tbl works very well, thank you, but not for this particular problem.) -- \"\t\f1A\h'+1m'\f4\(mo\h'+1m'\f1the\h'+1m'\f4\(es\t\f1\c _______________________________________________________________________ Terry Grevstad Network Research Corporation {sdcsvax,hplabs}!sdcrdcf!psivax!nrcvax!terry ucbvax!calma!nrcvax!terry
rbp@investor.UUCP (Bob Peirce) (09/19/85)
> This is driving me crazy. No matter what I try, I can't get the tab > stops to work right in troff. It just ignores any tab (or leader) > command I give it. I set the tabs with the .ta command as in the > following: > .ta 2i 4i > > I'm in no fill mode. I call the tabs like so: > > \t134\t135 > \t136\t137 > > and when the stuff comes out it looks like this: > > 134135 > 136137 You're not alone. We have the same problem in nroff. However, we found our version worked if you fed it two (2) dummy tab stops: .ta 0 0 5 41 58 This will set stops at columns 5, 41 and 58. Unfortunately, this does not do wonders for tbl! I would love to know how to fix it with only a binary. -- Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA uucp: ...!{allegra, bellcore, cadre, idis} !pitt!darth!investor!rbp 412-471-5320 NOTE: Mail must be < 30K bytes/message
jaap@mcvax.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis) (09/19/85)
In article <257@nrcvax.UUCP> terry@nrcvax.UUCP (Terry Grevstad) writes: > > ******** HELP! ******** > > This is driving me crazy. No matter what I try, I can't get the tab > stops to work right in troff. It just ignores any tab (or leader) > command I give it. I set the tabs with the .ta command as in the > following: > .ta 2i 4i > > I'm in no fill mode. I call the tabs like so: > > \t134\t135 > \t136\t137 You should use TABS instead of \t. As the manual says, \t will become a tab in copy mode, so when defining a macro or string. --jaap