ray@vantage.UUCP (Ray Liere) (11/08/89)
Does anyone know how to include comments in the format section portion
of a tbl table?
(By "format section", I mean the portion following the ; and preceding
the ".").
In complex tables, it seems that it would be very handy to be able to
include comments in the format section -- such as
c l l l l
c n n n n \"comment
-or-
c l l l l
.\"comment
c n n n n
However, when I try these two "obvious" approaches, I get tbl errors. Apparently
since tbl is a PREprocessor to troff, the \".* removal has not yet occurred.
I can only think of passing the stuff through my own "decommenter" first -- but
that is not the most desirable solution ...
Thanks for any assistance!
Ray Liere
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