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Re: [Groff] Weird variety of troff/nroff
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Weird variety of troff/nroff |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:02:57 -0400 (EDT) |
address@hidden writes:
>
> Does anyone out there have any idea of which variant of UNIX
> troff/nroff uses the folllowing decidedly non-standard syntax
> in 'tbl'? (We're talking early-mid 80s).
>
> .TS
> .center box;
> l l l.
I think all versions of AT&T tbl ignore miscellaneous punctuation
characters in the options. I submitted a patch to groff's tbl to do the
same thing long ago -- doesn't it handle this case?
-Larry Jones
It's going to be a long year. -- Calvin