Re: gtbl bug/missing feature

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Kim,

> According to the original tbl documentation (and there is no
> indication in the supplied documentation, that this feature is no
> longer supported), the pair 'T{' and 'T}' are used to include a block
> of data between 'tabs'.
> 
> The above table is incorrectly formatted in the sense, that
> 'gtbl/gtroff' apparently doesn't recognize the 'T{' or 'T}' at all.
> So the block of text appears in column one instead of column two,
> which I believe would have been the correct behavior.

You need the T{ at the start of the field, i.e. don't put space around
the tab character.

    .TS
    center,box.tab(;);
    c c
    n l.
    Index;Text
    _
    1;Excellent
    2;T{
    This should be
    spread over
    several lines
    T}
    3;More text
    .TE

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Cheers,


Ralph.