Re: [Groff] tables side-by-side

[Ted Harding]

Follow-up: I have found the source of your pronblem (the one
to do with vertical displacement). When a table is oujtput using
the .TS macro, a "display drop" vertical spacing is added (and
the same happens for .EQ using eqn, and in other contexts).

You can get rid of this (in ms macros) by setting the "display
drop" to zero. Hence, precede the first ".mk" in your code below
with ".nr DD 0" and ".LP", so that is is:

.nr DD 0
.LP
.mk
.TS
 ... table 1 ...
.TE
.rt
.DS 3i
.TS
 ... table 2 ...
.TE

Then it should work (it did for me just now).
Ted.

On 26-Oct-2013 16:07:47 James K. Lowden wrote:
> I'm confused about how best to lay out tables side by side.  I'm using
> the ms macro set.  The main text stretches across the page (one
> column), but I want the tables adjacent so that they can be
> more easily compared.  
> 
> My basic approach is
> 
> .mk
> .TS
>  ... table 1 ...
> .TE
> .rt
> .DS 3i
> .TS
>  ... table 2 ...
> .TE
> 
> If the table is too long for the current page, and lands on the next
> one, that doesn't work well at all, so I have
> 
> .KS
> .mk
> .TS
>  ... table 1 ...
> .TE
> .KE
> .rt
> .DS 3i
> .TS
>  ... table 2 ...
> .TE
> 
> In both cases, though, the second table isn't quite lined up with the
> fisrt.  I use .sp to move it down, sometimes by 5p, sometimes by 5
> lines, depending on whether or not a keep was needed.  
> 
> I'm obviously doing something wrong, because 1) the second table doesn'
> line up, and 2) the way it doesn't line up varies, and 3) the keep
> behavior varies according to where the table falls.  
> 
> What's the right way, please?  
> 
> --jkl
> 
> 

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