I still can't understand the output of my previous email, however, I now realize that the output I was looking for is achieved with:
.TS tab(;); L L L . AAA;BBB;CCC \_;\_;\_ aaa;bbb;ccc .TE On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Blake McBride <bl...@mcbride.name> wrote: > Greetings, > > Playing with tbl, I hit something I can't figure out. I get the same > result with groff and heirloom so it must be me. My input text looks like > this: > > .TS > tab(;); > L L L L L . > AAA;;BBB;;CCC > _;;_;;_ > aaa;;bbb;;ccc > .TE > > > The first column is, unexpectedly, wide, i.e. longer than needed. > > The second column is not left justified. It has padding on the right and > left. > > The third column had no padding on the right, but does on the left. > > I don't understand the padding, and worse yet, it is inconsistently > applied. > > I really appreciate help understanding this. > > Thanks. > > Blake McBride > >
