Re: [Groff] tbl query

[Heinz-Jürgen Oertel]

Am Donnerstag, 12. Juni 2003 23:29 schrieb Ralph Corderoy:
> Hi Robert,
>
> > I'm making a table with a lot of long text entries in it.  tbl
> > justifies such entries at both margins.  But this looks terrible in a
> > fairly narrow column - large gaps open up between words.  What I've
> > been doing is entering the text as
> >
> > T{
> > .na
> > sd hfkjh sdkfh s
> > T}
> >
> > but this is a bore, given that I have nearly a hundred such entries.
> > Is there any way to make tbl *stop* justifying T{...T} blocks?
>
> Have you tried `.na' immediately prior to the .TS?  I'd expect it to
> last for the duration of the table.  If you look at tbl's output, it
> does
>
>     .de 3init
>     ...
>     .ad \n[.j]
>
> and then uses 3init quite often.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Ralph.
>
It should be a column specification like b - for bold or s - for size.
in case you have only one small column and one is still width enough to accept 
a adjustment at both sides.
Or may be better, the possibility to call a user defined macro at the begining 
of each table entry?

Heinz