An example of a multiplication table: some unresolved questions

[Oliver Corff]

Dear All,

the attached attempt to create a multiplication table was inspired by
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Multiplication_tables

but I fail to do the right thing with regard to typesetting the computed
output.

I followed the groff manual, section Tabs and Fields, and set up my tab
positions as follows:

.ta 4mR 4mR 4mR 4mR 4mR 4mR 4mR 4mR 4mR 4mR 4mR 4mR

So, 12 tab stops at a distance of 4 m (I never have more than three
digits in my table example), all right-justified.

However, the \t escape seems to be completely ignored.

The alternative, conditionally prepending \~ if \n[p] < 100 and \~\~ if
\n[p] < 10 also seems to fail.

Thank you all for your enlightenment!

Best regards, Oliver.

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Dr. Oliver Corff
Mail: oliver.corff@email.de

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