On Mar 07 17:26 +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Here's three lines of output from fgrep after I indicate end of file to > tbl with Ctrl-D, shown as ^D. > > $ tbl | fgrep .UR > .TS > tab(/); > l l. > foo/bar > .UR foo:///bar > .UE > \&.UR/as text > .TE > ^D > .nr 3w0 \n[3w0]>?\w\[tbl]\&.UR\[tbl] > .UR foo:///bar > \&\h'|\n[3cl0]u'\&.UR\h'|\n[3cl1]u'as text > $
i don't know what to make of this. you're '/' as separator, that's doesn't make it easy. and you have foo:///bar (3 forward slashes), is that a typo or was it intended? > > That shows the `\&.UR/as text' is treated as two columns of plain text > whereas `.UR foo:///bar' has been passed through unaltered for troff to > see. > > I'm still not clear what you are trying to achieve. Do you wish `.UR' > to appear in the table as text? If so, use \&. Or do you want a URL to > appear in the table, using .UR? > > Cheers, Ralph. latter, i want URL to appear in the table, using .UR.