URL:
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57665>
Summary: tbl: want better TTY support for extremely long
tables
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: gbranden
Submitted on: Sat 25 Jan 2020 01:35:07 PM UTC
Category: Preprocessor tbl
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: New feature
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Details:
When I view pages like groff_char(7) on a terminal, continuous rendering is
enabled. This is nice because the man(7) macros don't make assumptions about
the page length that way, and you get smoothly flowing text that is
interrupted by page headers and footers.
Unfortunately, tbl is a preprocessor and doesn't know that the page length is
effectively infinite. This causes it to insert breaks in long tables.
Without the page headers and footers these look like single blank lines, the
same you get from blank input line in table, or .sp, or .sp 1, as recently
discussed on the gr...@gnu.org list.
The net result is ugliness and potential confusion.
How can we get tbl to pretend the page length is unbounded, or stop
introducing blank vertical space at the page boundaries?
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