> I hope to create a school directory of about 1,000 students using
> groff. I have close to what I want using the tbl processor, but
> hope to alternate shading between rows: white/grey/white/...
>
> Is there a way to do this?
There are two possibilities for shaded table cells:
. The hdtbl
> If you replace all the apostrophes with periods all works as you desire
> because the .ft R causes an implied break (at which point .ad c is in
> effect).
This is not correct: `.ft R' doesn't cause an implied break since font
changes are transparent to the line breaking algorithm.
Wern
On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 02:11:13AM +0100, Deri James wrote:
> As all the commands after "brian m. carlson" are introduced with apostrophes
> no breaks occur until the final .br (at which time .ad b is in effect rather
> than the earlier .ad c).
>
> If you replace all the apostrophes with periods
I hope to create a school directory of about 1,000 students using groff.
I have close to what I want using the tbl processor, but hope to
alternate shading between rows: white/grey/white/...
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks,
Andrew Young
On Saturday 03 July 2010 00:31:20 brian m. carlson wrote:
> I'm working on autogenerating some troff input for a project of mine,
> but I found some very odd behavior with the ad request. My testcase is
> attached. If you run groff with -rTC=1, my name is properly centered
> and in italics (as de
I'm working on autogenerating some troff input for a project of mine,
but I found some very odd behavior with the ad request. My testcase is
attached. If you run groff with -rTC=1, my name is properly centered
and in italics (as desired). However, if you do not, my name is left
adjusted.
It see
