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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: eqn and tbl (old problem)
Summary: yes, but...
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.065612.1083@ico.isc.com>
Date: 19 Feb 91 06:56:12 GMT
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npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) writes in response to an equation-
within-table question:

> The DWB 3.1 tbl documentation says:
...
> When eqn and tbl are used together on the same file, tbl
> should be used first.

To be fair, so does the tbl documentation back at least as far as v7. 
(Sorry; I don't have anything earlier.:-)

> There are all kinds of caveats, and some examples.
> But that would be telling. Here's part of an example, though:

[excerpt of example]

Looks to be approximately the same example as in the 1979 paper by Lesk.

No intent to flame Peter, but since most of us don't have (and can't get:-(
DWB 3.x, a little software archaeology may be helpful.  The equation-
within-table example persists in BSD manuals to this day, although it may
have been dropped from some of the AT&T manuals in the interregnum.
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
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