----- Forwarded message from Mike Bianchi <mbian...@foveal.com> -----
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:56:51 -0400
From: Mike Bianchi <mbian...@foveal.com>
To: Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org>
Cc: ra...@inputplus.co.uk, sa...@slogedalen.no, groff@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Groff] Table cell vertical align
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:19:57AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> > I think I learnt this from the list when I asked a few months ago.
> > See lines marked `->' and tbl(1). [...]
> >
> > -> l rd.
> > ...
> > -> \^;\^
>
> Very nice :-) This tbl trick apparently escaped my radar, and I can't
> remember having seen it on the list.
>
> Could you prepare a small patch to tbl.man which documents that? It's
> far from obvious.
The old original documentation for tbl:
Tbl -- A Program to Format Tables
M. E. Lesk
1977
http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/v7man/tbl/tbl.ps
mentions \^ under "Vertically spanned items" on page 5.
The old advice is still the best.
Read the Book
((Reminisces of when I learned UNIX in the mid-1970's; all the documentation
for UNIX was in incredibly tight but mostly complete man pages and Bell Labs
Memos.))
----- End forwarded message -----
See also the ^ Format operator on page 2.
Question:
Has the Lesk memo ever been updated for the groff extensions?
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