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From: feldman@comet.uucp (Steve Feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: vertical line registration in tbl...
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Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 15:18:42 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 15:18:42 1987
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We had this problem too, so I talked to someone in Adobe's technical
support departement, and he told me where to look.  I fiddled with it
and came up with the following patch to the psroff prolog, "psdit.pro":

*** psdit.pro.old       Fri Sep 11 17:02:13 1987
--- psdit.pro   Fri Sep 11 17:03:57 1987
***************
*** 189,193 ****
  /vr{0 800 moveto 0 -770 rls}def
  /bv{0 800 moveto 0 -1000 rls}def
! /br{0 750 moveto 0 -1000 rls}def
  /ul{0 -140 moveto 500 0 rls}def
  /ob{200 250 rmoveto currentpoint newpath 200 0 360 arc closepath stroke}def
--- 189,193 ----
  /vr{0 800 moveto 0 -770 rls}def
  /bv{0 800 moveto 0 -1000 rls}def
! /br{0 880 moveto 0 -1040 rls}def
  /ul{0 -140 moveto 500 0 rls}def
  /ob{200 250 rmoveto currentpoint newpath 200 0 360 arc closepath stroke}def

This makes the box rule character (used for vertical lines) a bit longer
and moves it up to join with the underline (used for horizontal lines).

	Steve Feldman
	Tymnet McDonnell Douglas
	..!sun!oliveb!tymix!feldman  or  oliveb!tymix!feldman@SUN.COM