Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!enea!kuling!irf From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Stellan Bergman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: vertical line registration in tbl... Message-ID: <513@kuling.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 02:38:42 EDT Article-I.D.: kuling.513 Posted: Mon Oct 12 02:38:42 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Oct-87 08:48:40 EDT References: <630@nugipsy.UUCP> <6550@brl-smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Stellan Bergman) Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden Lines: 35 Xref: mnetor comp.unix.questions:4552 comp.unix.wizards:4960 In article <6550@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes: >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 >-..... >-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. >..... We use the pipe "|" for our \(br on the Laserjet+ and get perfect tbl results by specifying '-e' option to nroff. I think you need to define the maximum resolution (1/240 inch) in your Laserjet+ driver table, though. We did that. 'nroff -e' really stands for even word spacing but it has the nice side effect of yielding maximum vertical resolution as well! As our \(ul character we use the normal "_" which also works OK. However, there exists an underline mode on the Laserjet+ which prints a rule under the character at the same time the character itself is printed (no Backspace-_ pairs needed). The two techniques give slightly different results with the internal underline mode having a better typographical quality. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bo Thide', Swedish Institute of Space Physics. UUCP: ...enea!kuling!irfu!bt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------