kak@hico2.UUCP (Kris A. Kugel) (04/06/91)
I'm trying to think of a way to fix a document that uses tbl. I'd like it to look as nice as possible when printed with both nroff and troff. I had it looking good with troff, but nroff had a problem because some of the lines of the table were too long. I tried fixing that by putting in the "T{"/"T}" constructs, but then the troff output started looking bad -- lines that fit fine before were broken into two (or more) lines unnecessarily. I tried the "expand" option, but that just spread the broken lines futher apart. Since I don't know what fonts or page sizes this document will be printed with, I have difficulty in setting a page width, or figuring out a maximum column width. So, what I want is: 1. to fit the tbl entry on one line, if possible. 2. to break up a column of the entry (if necessary) in such a fashion as to use as much of the line as possible. Perhaps if I can specify the column width in ens -- but I wouldn't bet that would work either. Any suggestions? Reply by mail . . . (if enough people are interested in the suggestions, I'll post a summary) Kris A. Kugel ( 908 ) 842-2707 uunet!westmark!hico2!kak {daver,ditka,zorch}!hico2!kak internet: kak@hico2.westmark.com