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From: wrp@biochsn.acc.virginia.edu (William R. Pearson)
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Subject: Re: HELP! with boxed tables using MM, tbl
Keywords: MM tbl
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Date: 22 Feb 89 22:04:19 GMT
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>Any other favorite bugs in UNIX\(rg text processing?  My favorites
>come from the fact that it is all interpreted and chained and there
>is no way to truly integrate.  Others come from the 2 character
>restrictions on names.  Oh, yeah, most tbl(1) implementations allow
>only 100 text blocks.  C'm'on guys, in computer science is 100
>really such a large number?????

	This week I encountered a more intransigent bug in tbl -
how to get double spacing inside of text blocks T{,T}.  Several
of the things that I tried ended up spacing the text block down
one line.  None worked satifactorily.  I would appreciate any suggestions
on how to format the following table:

 .TS
 center box;
 c c l.
 col1<TAB>col2<TAB>T{
 this is a very long text block that takes several lines
 }T
 .TE

and have the text block be double spaced, without changing the .vs
for the whole table.

Bill Pearson