Re: [Groff] OT: Fork of the Heirloom Documentation Tools for fixing?bugs

[Bernd Warken]

> Von: "Tadziu Hoffmann" <address@hidden>
> 
> > In the not yet public version of `runoff.7', there is a table
> > consisting of several pages.  But in groff, it was impossible
> > to use a single table; I had to split each page as a table of
> > its own (both in nroff and troff).
> 
> But that is a problem of the man macros, not groff in general.
> 
> Normally you would do
> 
>   .TS H
>   header common to all pages
>   .TH
>   table data, possibly several pages long
>   .TE
 
`.TS H' is only available for some tmacs, but not for -man.

> but man has no real table support (TS and TE are mostly no-ops,
> and TH is used for a different purpose);  me has no problem
> with it.

That seems to be right, unfortunately.  Thanx

Bernd Warken