[net.unix-wizards] tbl and nroff -mm

caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) (05/31/85)

With PC-AT Xenix 1.0, when I use the command
	tbl -TX ymodem.tmi|nroff -mm|col|head -23 >/dev/color&
on the following:

.FG "Header Information used by YMODEM Implementations"
.TS
allbox;
c c c c c c c
l l l l l l l.
Program 	Name	Length	Date	Mode	S/N	1k Blocks
Unix rb/sb	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	yes
VMS rb/sb	yes	yes	no	no	no	yes
Pro-YAM 	yes	yes	yes	no	yes	yes
cp/M YAM	yes	no	no	no	no	yes
MODEM76 	yes	no	no	no	no	no
.TE

I get the expected table within a grid.  However, when I include this
within a larger mm document with the sequence:
	mm -t -c -rB1 -rO0 -rW74 yproto.mm >ymodem.doc

	.DF CB
	.so ymodem.tmi
	.DE

The same file isn't set up as a table (allbox, etc. appear in the output).
Am I doing something wrong or is this Xenix bug number 62?
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lrr@siemens.UUCP (06/03/85)

tbl does not do the .so, so there is nothing for it to change into
the n/troff commands to make the table.  Either use soelim to eliminate
the .so or do it yourself by including the text of the .so'ed file into
the main text.  

Larry Rogers
Siemens Research and Technology Laboratories
Princeton, NJ 08540
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