Hi Larry,
thank you for your commment. In general, I totally agree with you, both
as an author and an editor.
Tables should be made visually pleasing, otherwise they'll hide, rather
than present, the information in them.
In my current case, the situation is a bit different, though. The
material
James K. Lowden wrote:
> Attached is a straw man 1st draft of what an introduction to the man
> system might look like. If it clears the threshold of raspberries,
> perhaps we can mold it into something useful.
>
> I think the page should be called man-intro, or intro-man. (Need
> help?
James K. Lowden wrote:
>
>> Of course, I can typeset the table separately and assemble the pdf
>> pages by hand, but a solution totally controlled from within the
>> groff file would be great.
>
> Not an answer, but in ancient times, your output would have gone a
> printer, which might have had
Dear All,
driven more by curiosity than focussed intention I searched Youtube with
the search term "roff tbl", and I am positively surprised to see quite a
few tutorials by various authors on elements of groff. There is one
dedicated tutorial on how to use tbl, another one introduces neatroff, et
