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Re: Leader characters \a mess up a table - probably a tbl bug
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Jonathan Leffler |
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Re: Leader characters \a mess up a table - probably a tbl bug |
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Mon, 13 Sep 2004 05:59:35 -0700 |
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Dear Ralph,
Another tardy response. This one is to your message:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-groff/2004-08/msg00162.html
I've chatted a bit with Werner Lemberg, and provided a reference to a
book published in 1986 documenting \a in tables (Gehani, 'Document
Formatting and Typesetting on the UNIX System', Silicon Press, ISBN
0-9615336-0-9), and he found a second reference to it in an O'Reilly
book, and has provided me with a fix which is in groff under CVS.
Using 'tbl -C' for compatibility gives me the leader characters;
'groff -C' provides the '-C' option to tbl as well a troff.
Thank you for your assistance.
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