Re: [Groff] making tbl created tables fit on the paper

2006-07-26 Thread Larry Kollar
Nick Stoughton wrote: > I've had similar problems with long tables, particularly where a column > is longer than a page ... that is, there are too many lines between > T{ and }T to fit this column on a single page. In this case, tbl says > > warning: page 236: table text block will not fit on

Re: [Groff] making tbl created tables fit on the paper

2006-07-26 Thread Nick Stoughton
Sorry this reply is a little late! I've had similar problems with long tables, particularly where a column is longer than a page ... that is, there are too many lines between T{ and }T to fit this column on a single page. In this case, tbl says warning: page 236: table text block will not fit on

Re: RE: [Groff] making tbl created tables fit on the paper

2006-07-04 Thread M Bianchi
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 12:02:02PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: > On 04-Jul-06 Gabriel Diaz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I wonder what kind tricks you use to make big tables that goes beyond > > the paper defined boundaries fit on the paper. > > > > How you mangae to fit them? Just changin the point si

Re: [Groff] making tbl created tables fit on the paper

2006-07-04 Thread walter harms
if the page is not to large you can simply use postscript to rescale. like 0.9 0.9 scale of cause this works best if you have a table that fills the whole page. re, wh ps: of cause it works also the other way around. if the table fits nearly a page but leave some ugly gaps use 1.1 1.1 scale to

RE: [Groff] making tbl created tables fit on the paper

2006-07-04 Thread Ted Harding
On 04-Jul-06 Gabriel Diaz wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder what kind tricks you use to make big tables that goes beyond > the paper defined boundaries fit on the paper. > > How you mangae to fit them? Just changin the point size? That, and other things! You can use the numeric flag to reduce the "bl

Re: [Groff] making tbl created tables fit on the paper

2006-07-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I wonder what kind tricks you use to make big tables that goes beyond > the paper defined boundaries fit on the paper. > > How you manage to fit them? Just changin the point size? Well, reducing the size is probably the first step, and there are few possibilities left in case the data should f