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From: harrison@necssd.NEC.COM (Mark Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: tbl:  how can I make entries not span a page?
Message-ID: <357@necssd.NEC.COM>
Date: 31 May 90 15:35:06 GMT
Organization: NEC America Inc. SSD, Irving, TX
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I have written a program that generates tbl output.  The basic format
of the output is something like this:

+-------+-----------------------+-----------------------------+
|  001  |  title of first item  |  text description of first  |
|       |                       |  item which spans several   |
|       |                       |  lines.                     |
+-------+-----------------------+-----------------------------+
|  002  |  title of second item |  text description of second |
|       |                       |  item which spans several   |
|       |                       |  lines.                     |
+-------+-----------------------+-----------------------------+
etc...

I am specifying the horizontal lines by printing an "_" before
each item.  I am specifying the third column using T{/T} delimiters:

My problem:  Occasionally an item will span a page.  Is there a way
I can specify that if an item spans a page to go to the next page,
in a manner similar to mm's .DS/.DE display delimiters?

    +-------+----------------------+------------------------------+
    |  002  |  title of second item |  text description of second |
-----------------------PAGE--BREAK----------------------------------------
    |       |                       |  item which spans several   |
    |       |                       |  lines.                     |
    +-------+-----------------------+-----------------------------+

Thanks in advance,
Mark
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