On 07-Jul-10 19:34:34, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> I'll try to follow up Werner's hint later. Meanwhile, looking for >> something "clever", I seem to have found that the escape "\R'...'" >> (\R'NAME VAL' sets register named NAME to value VAL) does not work >> in a table: > > You've missed the following feature of tbl: > > A data item consisting only of `\Rx' (`x' any character) is > replaced by repetitions of character `x' as wide as the column (not > joining its neighbours). > > If you use the \E escape character to hide `\R', you get the right > result, e.g. > > .TS > tab(#); > |l2 | l2 | l2 | l |. > _ > Row 1, Col 1#Row 1, Col 2#Row 1, Col 3#\ER'POS1 \n[nl]'Row 1, Col 4 > Row 2, Col 1#Row 2, Col 2#Row 2, Col 3#\ER'POS2 \n[nl]'Row 2, Col 4 > .TE > .tm POS1 == \n[POS1] > .tm POS2 == \n[POS2] > > => POS1 == 0 > POS2 == 14000 > > Werner
Ah!! Thank you, Werner! I had indeed missed it (though I had looked) since, when I evoked 'info tbl' and then tried to search using /\\R I got "Search failed." However, following your comment, and since 'info' on Debian is basically the same as 'man' (Debian refuse to implement real 'info' on ideological grounds), I then did the same search in 'man tbl' and found it. So it was there in 'info tbl' as well. Then, in 'info tbl', I tried the search /\R and that did find it! Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 07-Jul-10 Time: 21:33:38 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
