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From: hecht@hsi.UUCP (Alice Hecht)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: ditroff - leading chars and tables
Keywords: help!
Message-ID: <1108@hsi.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 89 19:51:39 GMT
Organization: Health Systems Intl., New Haven, CT
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I am using troff with the ms macro package and would like to
be able to use leading characters WITHIN tables.  The problem
is that the table macro .TS and .TE does not allow the specification
of the .lc or .tc commands.  Here is what I would like the output
to resemble:

	--------------------------------
	|                              |
 	| Name________________________ |
	| ____________________________ |
	| Address_____________________ |
	| Code Number_________________ |
	|                              | 
	|______________________________|

It would even be nice to use a doublebox or some other table
functions for my example.  But the I cannot use the table command
with the leading characters.  Has anyone ever done this and if so how?

Please e-mail all responses.
Thanks.
Alice

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