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From: raj@ursa.UUCP (Raj)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: tbl problems
Message-ID: <289@future.ursa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 14:03:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: future.289
Posted: Tue Aug 25 14:03:32 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Aug-87 03:10:30 EDT
Organization: Bear Stearns, New York, NY
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Keywords: tbl,troff,eroff,numeric field

tbl has a bug.  It manifests itself when you have a long table, spanning
several pages, and there are numeric fields.  The first few pages of the
table were alright, but the later pages have the problem.  The problem is
that blank spaces in the table are replaced by the decimal part of the
row above!  I have tried all kinds of ways and means to get around it.  The
only possible way is to declare the column as alphanumeric rather than 
numeric.  That makes the periods not aligned, and the whole thing looks ugly.

Has anyone experienced similar problems?  Does anyone know any solutions?
I have talked to the guys at ELAN as well as SUN, but unfortunately, they
were not much help.  

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