> I was so excited about the row height that I stopped looking
> at the bottom of the page.
Yeah, I didn't notice the missing footnotes either.
> Let me see if I understand what's going on here.
> 1. TS, tbl starts
> 2. tbl sees T{ ... T} and invokes troff
[snip]
> 6. TE, tbl ends
> 7.
Hi James,
> 1. TS, tbl starts
> 2. tbl sees T{ ... T} and invokes troff
No. If you use groff then add its -V option to see the Unix pipeline
that is used.
$ groff -V -t foo
tbl foo | troff -Tps | grops
$
tbl reads foo and ignores all lines outside of .TS-.TE, just printing
them
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 16:19:17 +0100
Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> Where are the actual footnotes?
I hadn't noticed! :-/ I was so excited about the row height that I
stopped looking at the bottom of the page.
> You can transparently embed the footnote requests in the
> table-cell diversion, so that
> 3. In your source file, add ".so s.tmac" at the beginning
> (to make groff use your version of the ms macros), and
> do not use "-ms" when calling groff.
Alternatively, add `-M.' to command line arguments of groff.
Werner
> So the content is only processed once, not twice, and the
> strategy suggested by me will not work.
> Please try the following: [snip]
Instead of the above, there is also an alternative solution:
You can transparently embed the footnote requests in the
table-cell diversion, so that they are onl
> http://www.schemamania.org/tbl/eg/
> I thought you might like to see a working example this time. :-)
Uh... sorry to have been misleading you all this time.
Where are the actual footnotes?
I had misinterpreted the symptoms, and believed that the table
cell is rendered twice: once to determin
> If you were me, would you override/modify the ms FS/FE macros to
> this automatically?
Sounds like a good idea.
> How could I make it easier for the next guy?
(a) The hard way: Provide a patch for the ms package, together with
documentation and a ChangeLog entry.
(b) By sending solutions
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:58:12 +0100 (CET)
Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > T{
> > Annualized Return\*[*]
> > .if !'\n(.z'' .ig
> > .tm \n(.z
> > .FS
> > Compounded Annualized Return
> > .FE
>
> Here `..' (two dots) is missing.
Thank you! That's *much* better.
> Minimal example, please.
http://www
> T{
> Annualized Return\*[*]
> .if !'\n(.z'' .ig
> .tm \n(.z
> .FS
> Compounded Annualized Return
> .FE
Here `..' (two dots) is missing.
> T}abc
>
> but whenever the conditional expression is true, I get errors: [...]
Do you get the same errors with `..' inserted also?
Minimal example,
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:13:01 -0500
"James K. Lowden" wrote:
> > A quick fix for this would be to simply ignore the footnotes
> > when not in the top-level diversion, like so:
> >
> > T{
> > Annualized Return*
> > .if !'\n(.z'' .ig
> > .FS
> > * (footnote text)
> > .FE
> > ..
> >
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:52:51 +0100
Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions, Tadziu. I had to
do some more reading and experimenting to understand your suggestions.
> .TS
> box nokeep;
> c | cb cb | cb s s s s | c
> c | cb cb | c c c c c | c
> n |
> 1. Why is the last column in both tables so wide? tbl
> columns can set a minimum width, but I don't see how to
> encourage tbl to make one particular column narrower.
Werner already answered that one, but I have a few more
suggestions for improving the formatting of the tables.
The followi
> After a week trying out groff, I have three questions about the
> above tables. I hope someone can steer me in the right direction.
>
> http://www.schemamania.org/tbl/eg/t.pdf
> http://www.schemamania.org/tbl/eg/t.ms
Uh, oh, this isn't a smallest possible example which demonstrates the
problem
http://www.schemamania.org/tbl/eg/t.pdf
http://www.schemamania.org/tbl/eg/t.ms
After a week trying out groff, I have three questions about the above
tables. I hope someone can steer me in the right direction.
1. Why is the last column in both tables so wide? tbl columns can set
a minimum wid
http://www.schemamania.org/tbl/eg/t.pdf
http://www.schemamania.org/tbl/eg/t.ms
After a week trying out groff, I have three questions about the above
tables. I hope someone can steer me in the right direction.
1. Why is the last column in both tables so wide? tbl columns can set
a minimum wid
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