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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: vertical line registration in tbl...
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Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 01:00:46 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 10 01:00:46 1987
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In article <630@nugipsy.UUCP> tcianflo@nugipsy.UUCP (Tom Cianflone) writes:
-Here is the problem.  The vertical lines in the table
-do not meet flush with the horizontal lines.  At the top
-of the table, the vertical lines fall just short of the
-top-most horizontal line.  On the bottom, the vertical lines
-overshoot the bottom-most horizontal line.
-
-If I remember correctly, this has something to do with
-the pipe character (|) being used for drawing the vertical
-lines instead of doing it some other way.  What is the
-fix for this?

No, the "box vertical rule" character \(br is used.
It works fine in many environments, including ours.
The real problem is that many fonts supplied for
some "typesetters" do not have proper vertical and
horizontal rule character definitions.  A good
explanation of these matters can be found in
"Adventures with Typesetter-Independent TROFF" by
Mark Kahrs and Lee Moore in the Summer 1984 USENIX
conference proceedings.