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

[Werner LEMBERG]

> 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?

The current CVS has code for this.  From tbl.man:

       Here are the specifiers that can appear in suffixes to column
       key letters:

       [...]

       x,X    This is a GNU tbl extension.  Either of these specifiers
              may be followed by a macro name (either one or two
              characters long), or long name in parentheses.  A
              one-letter macro name must be separated by one or more
              blanks from whatever follows.  The macro which name can
              be specified here must be defined before creating the
              table.  It is called just before the table's cell text
              is output.  As implemented currently, this macro is only
              called if block input is used, that is, text between
              `T{' and `T}'.  The macro should contain only simple
              troff requests to change the text block formatting, like
              text adjustment, hyphenation, size, or font.  The macro
              is called after other cell modifications like b , f or v
              are output.  Thus the macro can overwrite other
              modification specifiers.


    Werner