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From: skwu@boulder.Colorado.EDU (WU SHI-KUEI)
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Subject: Re: software tools question
Keywords: software tools question macro include text processing
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Date: 8 Dec 89 22:50:22 GMT
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With System V by far the easiest solution to including a table in multiple
documents is to process the table source with 'tbl', redirecting the output
to a file which can be included anywhere.  I.e.:

	tbl table1.src > table1.fmt
	tbl table2.src > table2.fmt

In the text source:

	blah blah blah
	.so table1.fmt
	more blah blah blah
	.so table2.fmt

There is no need for any other software tools (At least with 'mm' or any 
of the other System V text formatting tools).