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From: henry@angel.Eng.Sun.COM (Henry McGilton)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: need help with vertical spanning in DITROFF tables
Summary: a format broken
Message-ID: <3057@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 19 Nov 90 01:58:09 GMT
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In article <11739@spool.cs.wisc.edu>, beverly@ai.cs.wisc.edu (Beverly Seavey (-Kung)) writes:

    *  I am trying to create a table using ditroff and tbl.
    *  The last column has a block of text. I want the entries
    *  in the other columns, which each occupy one line only
    *  to be centered up and down relative to the block of text:
    * 	  ____________________________________________________
    * 	  |     |     |     |     | Lots of text here, which  |
    * 	  |  x  |  y  |  z  |  w  | happens to run on for     |
    * 	  |_____|_____|_____|_____|_three lines...____________|
    * 	  |     |     |     |     | Second entry in this field|
    * 	  |  a  |  b  |  c  |  d  | I couldn't draw both text |
    * 	  |_____|_____|_____|_____|_draw_both_text_and_dashes_|

    *  If for these line I have      :
	*  a a a a a.
	*   . . .  and so on  . . .
Vertical spanning of  a  type columns in ditroff is BROKEN beyond
all belief.  Try using  l  type columns instead and see what you get.

    	........  Henry