At 01:51 PM 1/24/00 -0600, Fred W. Noltie Jr. wrote:
>
>Can groff do tables, with horizontal and vertical ruled lines? I don't
mean
>using the pipe character or '---' or underscores; I mean actual ruled
lines.
>If it can, I'll put it into the bin for consideration.
>
Yes. You can draw lines with \l and \L (horizontal and vertical).
You can also let the tbl preprocessor format your table. For
example, pipe the following through "groff -t -ms |lpr" to get
a table with three centered columns and gridlines around all the cells.
.TS
allbox;
c s s
c c c.
Pet Inventory
cat calico 3
cat black 2
dog poodle 2
.TE
The lines beginning "cat" and "dog" have the fields separated
by tabs, not spaces.
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