Re: [Groff] HDTBL

[Yves Cloutier]

Hello Ralph,

I'm not sure what the term is, but I use CTRL-X to stop a process that
seems to just hang in the terminal. Like endless loops etc..

Ok thanks for the -mtrace tip.  I ended up going back to try to workout my
table using tbl, since although HDTBL was working in a virgin document,
when i copied the code into my main document it would hang.

I'll try again with -mtrace as I really like the syntax of HDTBL - it's
very familiar when you know HTML and for me , a much more intuitive.


On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 6:01 AM, Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Hi Yves,
>
> > I'm running:
> >
> > pdfmom -mhdtbl felicidad.mom > felicidad.pdf
> >
> > The table in my doc is:
> >
> > .TBL
> > .TR
> > .TD
> > contents of the table cell
> > .ETB
> >
> > But nothing happens after running the command line. My cursor just
> > goes to the next line and sits there.  I have to CTRL+X to get my
> > prompt back.
>
> Not sure what Ctrl-X is doing, but anyway, try adding -mtrace after the
> over -m options you have.  It sounds like hdtbl is getting stuck in a
> loop and the trace macros will print out what's happening which will
> hopefully give you a clue what in your input is making hdtbl unhappy.
>
> Cheers, Ralph.
>