Re: [Groff] tbl and output of first column

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Peter,

> The problem: the first column, first row will not wrap automatically
> and will always remain on a single line. This causes the whole table
> to push to the right, with the leftmost column being awkwardly wide.
> Hyphenation does not seem to be the problem. I have tried several
> combinations of column width instructions; none work as I want them
> to.

Use a text block, T{...T}, for the text that appears in the column with
you wish to wrap.

> The code (NOTE that the tab delimiter is a ^G or bell character, which
> may not translate in email):
> 
> .PP
> Table 1\&. Interactions of Streams Factors
> .TS
> tab();
> l l l l l l.

What's the Ctrl-S before the second `l'?

> UDB \fBprohibit-streams\fP permissions T{
>  UDB \fBprohibit-streams-override\fP permissions 

So change these two lines to

    T{
    UDB \fBprohibit-streams\fP permissions
    T}T{
     UDB \fBprohibit-streams-override\fP permissions 

Cheers,


Ralph.