On 26/08/14 16:38, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: >> In the not yet public version of `runoff.7', there is a table >> consisting of several pages. But in groff, it was impossible >> to use a single table; I had to split each page as a table of >> its own (both in nroff and troff). > > But that is a problem of the man macros, not groff in general. > > Normally you would do > > .TS H > header common to all pages > .TH > table data, possibly several pages long > .TE
Indeed. Just a couple of weeks ago, I tabulated the functions which Microsoft's MSVCRT.DLL exports, vs. the respective Windows versions which provide each. After I'd selected a suitable compromise for font size, such that it would remain legible while not overflowing the page width, the table ran to 60 pages of landscape A4 without a hitch... > but man has no real table support (TS and TE are mostly no-ops, > and TH is used for a different purpose); me has no problem > with it. ...and I did mine with ms. -- Regards, Keith.
