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From: btwomey@mtuxj.att.com (XF3AA-W.TWOMEY)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.misc
Subject: HELP! with boxed tables using MM, tbl
Keywords: MM tbl
Message-ID: <946@mtuxj.att.com>
Date: 9 Feb 89 14:40:21 GMT
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Organization: AT&T, Middletown NJ
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I'm trying to create multi-page boxed tables using tbl and mm and troff.
I'm using .TS H and .TH to get the header repeated on pages.

MM has problems though. I have had: the sides of the box go missing;
pages come out blank except for the table header; and the last page 
have the last few lines jam into each other as if the vertical space
had been decreased, as in .vs 2 .  Lots of nonsense, really.

I'll break the table into several page sized tables as a last resort.

Is there a bug in mm? If you have had success with a multipage boxed
table, can you send me a copy?

Here is how I'm setting up the table. Do you see anything wrong?

Table contents deleted for brevity. I don't think that the length
of this table (300 lines) is munging things; errors have appeared
on every page.

This is exasperating, any help will be greatly appreciated.

Bill Twomey
201-577-4627		
AT&T Business Markets Group	attmail!btwomey

.PM N
.PF "''- \\\\nP -''"
.PH "'''junk2.tbl'"
.\" there are extra columns on the left and right, it looks nicer
.TS H
center, doublebox;
rw1 1 cw1 1 s s s sw1
rw1 1 rw1 1 c s s 
rw1 1 Lw1 1 c c c 1 Lw1 Lw1.
\ 
\ 		Database File Usage\fR
\ 	\ 	_	_	_	 	\ 
.T&
rw1 1 Lw1 1 c c c 1 L 1 rw1 1
rw1 1 Lw1 1 c c c 1 L 1 rw1 1
rw1 1 Lw1 1 c c c 1 L 1 rw1 1.
		LOGICAL	FILE	C	\ 	\ 
		FILE	ALIAS	PROGRAM	\ 	\ 
\ 	=	=	=	=	=	\ 
.T&
rw1 1 Lw1 1 ae 4 ce 4 a l.
.TH
		noclass	NOFILE	flag.c	 \ 
				w aclist.c
				badseed.c
				broad.c
				krispie.c
				poopt.c
		gagroot	GAGFILE	gagnld.c
				bloadpes.c
				slicingf1.c
				phspca.c
.
.
.
		std	STFILE	poopt.c
				poorepf.c
				fnordcomf1.c
				fnordcopy.c
.TE

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201-577-4627
AT&T Business Markets Group
Business Customer Platform & Equipment Provisioning Systems Division