Re: [Groff] Using groff & tbl for creating a CV

[Ted Harding]

On 09-Aug-11 20:46:35, Chris Schaller wrote:
> Did anyone of you roffers ever try to create a CV with groff and tbl?
> 
> I started using tbl for that purpose, but I miserably failed with the
> output.  Example:
> 
> """
> .TS
> tab(|);
> lll.
> Since 05/2006|My Company in Downtown
> _
>|This is the role I occupied
>|T{
> .IP -
> Working on this
> .IP -
> Working on that
> .IP -
> Achieved lots of things
> .IP -
> But now, this is going to be a rather lengthy description of a task
> that I had which is so long that groff is complaining about the length
> of the line
> T}
> 07/2003-04/2006|Yet Another Company I Worked For
> _
>|The role I had there
>|T{
> .IP -
> Some more tasks
> .IP -
> You will get the idea
> T}
> .TE
> """
> 
> What I am fighting with is the width of the columns:
> 
> $ groff -ms -t cv.roff > cv.roff.ps
> 
> warning: file `cv.roff', around line 4:
>   table wider than line width
> 
> 
> Is there any way to specify a maximum width or any other way to achive
> my goal having more control over my columns?  Am I completely nuts
> trying to do such a wicked thing?
> 
> It's also interesting to see that some parts of the data will be bold
> ("Since 05/2006", "My Company in Downtown", and "This is the role I
> occupied") while the text between T{ and T} looks regular, if I
> prepend the following line to above example (ms macro):
> 
> .NH
> Test
> 
> But I guess this is intended behaviour and I simply have to switch to
> .LP or .PP for normal?
> 
> My groff version (running on ubuntu 11.04):
> 
> GNU groff version 1.21
> Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GNU groff comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You may redistribute copies of groff and its subprograms
> under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
> For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
> 
> called subprograms:
> 
> GNU troff (groff) version 1.21
> GNU grops (groff) version 1.21
> 
> Thanks for any hints/pointers!
> 
> - Chris

Here is a quick-and-dirty (and requiring manual tuning) way to
cure the long-line problem. I am also looking at other possible
approaches. What is unusual is the use of external (ms) macros
(e.g. .IP) within the T{...T} block!

.TS
tab(|);
lll.
Since 05/2006|My Company in Downtown
_
|This is the role I occupied
|T{
.IP -
Working on this
.IP -
Working on that
.IP -
Achieved lots of things
.IP -
But now, this is going to be a rather lengthy description of a
.br
task that I had which is so long that groff is complaining about 
.br 
the length of the line
T}
07/2003-04/2006|Yet Another Company I Worked For
_
|The role I had there
|T{
.IP -
Some more tasks
.IP -
You will get the idea
T}
.TE

Stand by for further suggestions (from me or others)!
Ted.

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