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Re: [Groff] Correct protocol for making changes
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Eric S. Raymond |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Correct protocol for making changes |
Date: |
Sat, 3 Feb 2007 02:45:55 -0500 |
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Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
> > But trailing spaces should be safe with 'l' justification (and
> > leading spaces with 'r') except in the odd circumstance that
> > the spaces happen to extend past the tab point due to some
> > wacky point-size change. I think.
>
> Well, it can make the results uglier. For example, this
>
> .TS
> tab (@);
> l l.
> address@hidden
> address@hidden
> .TE
>
> .TS
> tab (@);
> l l.
> address@hidden
> xxx @yyy
> .TE
>
> gives
>
> xxx yyy
> xxx yyy
>
> xxx yyy
> xxx yyy
Sorry, I'm not seeing a problem here. As long as both tables have
left-aligned problems, what's the issue?
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
- [Groff] Correct protocol for making changes, Eric S. Raymond, 2007/02/01
- Re: [Groff] Correct protocol for making changes, Werner LEMBERG, 2007/02/02
- Re: [Groff] Correct protocol for making changes, Eric S. Raymond, 2007/02/02
- Re: [Groff] Correct protocol for making changes, Eric S. Raymond, 2007/02/02
- Re: [Groff] Correct protocol for making changes, Werner LEMBERG, 2007/02/02
- Re: [Groff] Correct protocol for making changes, Eric S. Raymond, 2007/02/02
- Re: [Groff] Correct protocol for making changes, Werner LEMBERG, 2007/02/03
- Re: [Groff] Correct protocol for making changes,
Eric S. Raymond <=
- Re: [Groff] Correct protocol for making changes, Werner LEMBERG, 2007/02/03
- Re: [Groff] Correct protocol for making changes, Gunnar Ritter, 2007/02/02
- Re: [Groff] Correct protocol for making changes, Werner LEMBERG, 2007/02/02
- Re: [Groff] Correct protocol for making changes, Zvezdan Petkovic, 2007/02/02
- Re: [Groff] Correct protocol for making changes, Gunnar Ritter, 2007/02/02
- Re: [Groff] Correct protocol for making changes, Werner LEMBERG, 2007/02/02
- Re: [Groff] Correct protocol for making changes, Zvezdan Petkovic, 2007/02/02
- Re: [Groff] Correct protocol for making changes, Werner LEMBERG, 2007/02/03
- Re: [Groff] Correct protocol for making changes, Zvezdan Petkovic, 2007/02/02
- Re: [Groff] Correct protocol for making changes, Clarke Echols, 2007/02/03