Re: [Groff] gtbl, T{ ... T} doesn't work?

[Larry Kollar]

Meg McRoberts wrote:

> While we're speaking of tables...
>
> I'm having some trouble with a table building into HTMl
> with -mandoc.  I have a manpage with a bunch of long but
> simple tables.  It built okay on my Mandrake 8 system
> (running whatever groff comes with that) but when I moved
> the file to a current RedHat system, the tables don't build
> at all for HTML.  They are fine in the ASCII, ps, and pdf
> builds.

The Makefile looks OK. I'll bet you're missing a utility on the
RedHat box. From the grohtml(1) manpage:

       grohtml is dependent upon the png utilities (pnmcut, pnmcrop, 
pnmtopng)
       and  GhostScript (gs).  pnmtopng (version 2.37.6 or greater) and 
pnmcut
       from the netpbm package (version 9.16 or greater) will work  
also.   It
       is  also  dependent upon psselect from the PSUtils package.

If the tables are *really* simple, you might want to give this a
shot:  http://home.alltel.net/kollar/groff/htbl.tar.gz  -- it works
like a preprocessor & formats tbl input into HTML tables.

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