> I cannot see what you are doing wrong (why the \t is not seen as a tab)
>From the troff user's manual: "\t Non-interpreted horizontal tab"
Ok, now it makes sense. Thanks to both of you!
On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Ralph Corderoy
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 t
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 interpre
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 Smith1/1/70 (410) 555‐
Dave Jones
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
.\" o
