Re: [Groff] Table Macros

[Joachim Walsdorff]

Hi Werner,

Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > I wrote some groff-macros for tables.
> >    
>
> *Very* impressive!  I think that many, many groff users can use this.
>
>  
Thanks for the compliment.

> >   A table with two columns and two rows (cellcontents in this
> >   example are rownumber*columnnumber) is written as:
> >
> >      .TBL cols=2 .TR .TD 1*1 .TD 1*2 .TR .TD 2*1 .TD 2*2 .ETB
> >
> >   Here we see a difference with HTML tables: at the time the number
> >   of columns must be specified explicitly via cols=m (or indirectly
> >   via the width-argument, see later).
> >    
>
> Hmm, why this restriction?  It looks to me that this can be overcome
> (this is a first wild guess based on the work I've done for doc.tmac).
>  
I don't see an easy solution for this without using a preprocessor or at 
least an external utility program via .sy or .pso or so, and both i try 
to avoid.

> What's the license of your code?  Could I include it as a contributed
> package to groff (I would need a copyright assignment)?
>
>  
I copied the license text from groff(7) and added it to the manpage- and 
tmac-files.

Joachim

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