On 09-Aug-11 20:46:35, Chris Schaller wrote: > Did anyone of you roffers ever try to create a CV with groff and tbl? > > I started using tbl for that purpose, but I miserably failed with the > output. Example:
The following does a cleaner job: .TS tab(|); lll. Since 05/2006|My Company in Downtown _ |This is the role I occupied |T{ .nr LLold \n[LL] .ll 3i .nr LL 3i .IP - Working on this .IP - Working on that .IP - Achieved lots of things .IP - But now, this is going to be a rather lengthy description of a task that I had which is so long that groff is complaining about the length of the line T} .ll \n[LLold]u .nr LL \n[LLold] 07/2003-04/2006|Yet Another Company I Worked For _ |The role I had there |T{ .IP - Some more tasks .IP - You will get the idea T} .TE It stores the old line-length, and then both sets the current (troff) line-length and the ms-macro line length LL to (here) 3 inches, then afterwards re-sets them back to what they were. > It's also interesting to see that some parts of the data will be bold > ("Since 05/2006", "My Company in Downtown", and "This is the role I > occupied") while the text between T{ and T} looks regular, if I > prepend the following line to above example (ms macro): > > .NH > Test > > But I guess this is intended behaviour and I simply have to switch to > .LP or .PP for normal? The simplest way tpo meake selected portions bold is to set it explicitly in-line, as in Since \fB05/2006|My Company in Downtown\fP Hoping this helps! And hoping to incite others to contribute ideas! Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 09-Aug-11 Time: 22:38:55 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------