I cannot see what you are doing wrong (why the \t is not seen as a tab)
but if you change all your \t to actual tab characters you get:
Name Birthday Telephone
John Smith 1/1/70 (410) 555‐1111
Dave Jones 2/2/63 (311) 800‐0000
Bob Williams‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐3/3/56‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐(999) 555‐2222
Mike
On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 10:18:34AM -0400, T. Kurt Bond wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to use tabs and tab stops in groff to so some simple tables, and
> can't figure out why it is not working. Here's the input:
>
> .\" groff -mm tabs.mm | ps2pdf - tabs.pdf
> .P
> A sentence to start the example.
> .\" http://cmd.inp.nsk.su/old/cmd2/manuals/unix/UNIX_Unleashed/ch08.htm
> .\" output should look something like:
> .\"
> http://cmd.inp.nsk.su/old/cmd2/manuals/unix/UNIX_Unleashed/art/08/08unx25.gif
> .nf
> .ta 3i 4.5i
> Name\tBirthday\tTelephone
>
> John Smith\t1/1/70\t(410) 555-1111
> Dave Jones\t2/2/63\t(311) 800-0000
> .tc -
> Bob Williams\t3/3/56\t(999) 555-2222
> .fi
> .P
> A sentence to end the example.
>
>
> I get a result with everything smashed together, as if the "\t"s weren't
> there at all.
>
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
>
> --
> T. Kurt Bond, tkurtb...@gmail.com
--
Mike Bianchi
Foveal Systems
973 822-2085
mbian...@foveal.com
http://www.AutoAuditorium.com
http://www.FovealMounts.com
