Re: Nesting tables with tbl

[Blake McBride]

Thanks for the great ideas!

What I did for this instance is to put the sub-table inside one of the
top-level tables.  It's not a general solution but sufficient for my needs
in this instance.

Incidentally, as I think I mentioned before, I use groff with tbl to
produce computer reports.  It's far easier for me to generate troff/tbl
code and run it through groff/tbl than to worry about all the alignment and
paging myself.

Thanks!

Blake


On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 3:19 PM Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Blake,
>
> > Any ideas?
>
> tbl(1) is a preprocessor that looks for .TS to .TE pairs.
> It doesn't handle nested pairs.
>
> Do you definitely need tbl(1)?  Tabs are quite useful.
> See
>
>     info groff 'gtroff Reference' 'Tabs and Fields' | less
>
> Could mulitple tables with no vertical gap between them suffice?
>
> --
> Cheers, Ralph.
>
>