Re: [Groff] How to do Multipage tables?

[Larry Kollar]

> According to page 6 of the document "tbl - A program to Format Tables"
> by M.E. Lesk, tbl is supposed to handle:-
> 
> .TS H
> page heading text
> .TH
> 
> How do I get this to work? I keep getting:-
> 
> ...:2: unrecognised format 'p'
> ...:2: giving up on this table

I was about to ask you for a sample, but I think I see what's happening. You 
need to specify global options and column layouts before the table headings. 
This is the kind of thing I do a lot at work:

.TS H
allbox expand tab(@);
cb cb
l l .
address@hidden
.TH
address@hidden the hard drive.
address@hidden the world.
address@hidden
.TE

The line "address@hidden" is the table heading; it gets printed in bold and 
centered within the column.

Hope that helps!

-- Larry