apratt@atari.UUCP (02/14/87)
I am trying to get a multi-page table using tbl and nroff -ms. The table is just two columns, with a box around the whole thing and a vertical rule between the columns, like so: TBL INPUT NROFF -ms OUTPUT ===================================================================== .TS H _________________________ box; | Summary | c s |-----------------------| c |c | column 1 | column2 | l |l. |----------|------------| \ | data11 | data12 | Summary | data21 | data22 | _ | data31 | data32 | column 1 column 2 |__________|____________| _ .TH data11 data12 data21 data22 data31 data32 .TE ======================================================================== My output device is a Canon laser printer which understands half-line forward and reverse and full-line reverse. The symptom also shows up on an Epson printer with half-line forward only (using col and a special filter to change ^[9 to epson-half-line-forward). The symptom is a half-line gap in the center vertical bar between the line before the .TH and the first data line AT THE TOP OF EACH PAGE. This only happens with the -ms macros handling page breaks, so that's where I suspect the fault. Is this well-known? Is there a work- around? I have tried various spacings before and after the .TH directive, and they all give the same result: the same half-line gap in the center bar. Until somebody sends me a fix (or I come up with one on my own) I will just have to split the table across pages manually... Thanks for trying, whoever wrote the tbl helper in -ms, but I can't make it work. /----------------------------------------------\ | Opinions expressed above do not necessarily | -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp. | reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else. | ...lll-lcc!atari!apratt \----------------------------------------------/