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From: hecht@hsi.UUCP (Alice Hecht)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.misc
Subject: Re: HELP! with boxed tables using MM, tbl
Keywords: MM tbl
Message-ID: <1085@hsi.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 89 16:58:00 GMT
References: <946@mtuxj.att.com>
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Organization: Health Systems Intl., New Haven, CT
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In article <946@mtuxj.att.com>, btwomey@mtuxj.att.com (XF3AA-W.TWOMEY) writes:
> 
> 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.
> 
I've had similar problems with tables before and the only thing that 
ended working was ending the table at the bottom of each page and then
restarting it again at the top.  It seems that sometimes you can use
the running table headers and sometimes it doesn't like it.  The worst
learning experience I ever had with tables was when I started a job
at the end of the day and left for home and when I came in the
next day to pick up my printout found out that the system administrator
finally had to cancel my job 8 hours after I had left.  What had happened
was the table went into an infinite loop and tied up a majority
of our CPU processing time.  They weren't too happy with me that day.

So if you're trying to have a table run from one page to the next, don't!
There is definitely a bug in troff there (and by the way I was using the
MS macro but your situation sounds identical to mine).

Alice

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Alice Hecht                                       ...!uunet!hsi!hecht
Health Systems International                      hecht@hsi.uu.net