asp@COS.COM (Andrew S. Partan) (04/13/87)
I have a user who has been trying to work with tbl and troff and is
having all sorts of problems and I can not help her. Any have any
ideas? Her question follows:
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Can you tell me how to load a TBL table into the middle of a TROFF
source file? (Actually through the ptroff filter - a PostScript filter
that first runs troff and then turned the C/A/T output into PostScript
and then shoves the file to a printer.)
I am trying to write a document which is going to contain several TBL
tables. I do not want to have to pre-figure how many pages each will
be and set up the page numbering in my heading by hand in order to
print each file separately. I would like to figure out how to have the
tables automatically loaded in the correct place so the page numbers
etc work.
I have managed to get the TBL files to print correctly (1 table per
file) if I
tbl file.tbl | ptroff -ms
however if I .so the file into the text - it messes up - the boxes
disappear. If I use -ms on the ptroff command, the table starts to
migrate horizontally across the page.
I've tried:
- tbl'ing the file into another file and .so'ing that output file
- tbl'ing the file piped to ptroff which contains a .rd to read it
- tbl'ing the file piped to ptroff which contains a .rd in a diversion
at the top of the file
I'm running out of both ideas and paper since you have to actually
print the file to see if it works. (NROFF doesn't show the lines and
we do not have a program to display TROFF output on our Suns).
Any help would be greatly appreciated. The manual only gives help for
tbl by way of examples which are not very complete and only appear to
work when the table is isolated in a file on its own.
thanks,
wendy
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Thanks for any help that you can give her.
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