Ok, now it makes sense. Thanks to both of you! On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Kurt, > > > 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. > > Mike pointed out you need real ASCII tab characters to have your example > work. `\t' is used in `copy mode', e.g. when defining a macro, to > create a tab that's interpreted later, e.g. when the macro is invoked. > > $ printf '%s\n' .nf '.de m' 'foo\tbar' 'x\ty\tz\tz\ty' .. .m | > > nroff | grep . > foo bar > x y z z y > $ > > -- > Cheers, Ralph. > https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy > -- T. Kurt Bond, tkurtb...@gmail.com and http://unwind-protect.org/~tkb/ <http://unwind-protect.org/%7Etkb/>
