hi list, I run into a problem that left me confused. I wanted to use \_ to draw a line in a table. My test programm looks like that:
.TS tab(|); l l l. Geraet | Seriennummer | Bemerkung _ xxxxxxxxxxxxxx |11111111111111111 |\_ xxxxxxxxxxxxxx |11111111111111111 |\_ xxxxxxxxxxxxxx |11111111111111111 |\_ xxxxxxxxxxxxxx |11111111111111111 |\_ xxxxxxxxxxxxxx |11111111111111111 |\_ .TE when i run my test it looks like that: groff -t -Tascii line.tbl grotty:line.tbl:7: character above first line discarded Geraet Seriennummer Bemerkung ------------------------------------------------------------------- xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 11111111111111111 _ xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 11111111111111111 _ xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 11111111111111111 _ xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 11111111111111111 _ xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 11111111111111111 _ I expected that \_ will be expanded to ____________________ (also no idea why grotty complains). btw: the example in UTP p. 180 works fine to it is not a broken macro or so. re, wh
