Re: [Groff] tbl(1) and Left-Adjusted Text Cells

[Andrew J. Piziali]

Robert, you wrote:
    
    >    In a table I've written using tbl(1), I have a number of text cells
    > such as:

    >      T{
    >      .ad l
    >      Some text that should be left-justified within its
    >      column.
    >      T}

    > Is there a way to instruct tbl to left adjust all text in the table
    > without having to repeat the ".ad l" request in every T{...T} block?
    > I've tried inserting the .ad request before all of the T{...T} blocks
    > but it has no effect.
    
    That should work; just put .na before the .TS request, and .ad after
    the .TE.
    
With the addition of the .na and .ad requests, all text is filled and
left-adjusted without using the repeated ".ad l" requests throughout the
table.  Why must I deactivate adjusting before the .TS and reactivate it
afterwards?  I would have thought the single ".ad l" before the first
data in the table would change the formatting to left-adjust for all
text.

I am using the MS macro set.

Thanks.


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