Re: long nroff tables

2021-01-20 Thread Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Concerning the warning "cannot adjust line". It is caused by "troff" meddling with the line adjustment in at least text block columns ( T{...T} ). Happens when the adjustment mode is 'b' (adjust to both margins), which is the default mode. Temporary workaround is to put '.ad l' in front

Re: long nroff tables

2021-01-20 Thread James K. Lowden
On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 18:00:39 +0100 Oliver Corff wrote: > try this: > > TS H Hi Oliver, Thanks for the suggestion. I'm still stuck for the "right" way, but it turns out lengthening the logical page does the trick: .pl 100i I didn't find a way to avoid diving down into troff request

Re: long nroff tables

2021-01-20 Thread Oliver Corff
Sorry, that was copy&paste one character too short. Should start with: .TS H Oliver. On 20/01/2021 18:00, Oliver Corff wrote: Hi James, try this: TS H center nospaces tab(:); lb s l l. Service Branches _ Service     : Person in Charge _ .TH Customer Complaints  : Willy Nick

Re: long nroff tables

2021-01-20 Thread Oliver Corff
Sorry, I only read the first half of your text properly. I didn't check whether the standard tbl behaviour of the .TS H/.TH mechanism is observed by the man/mdoc packages. That can theoretically depend on the output target. If it is a text terminal, then there is no "page length", the text flows;

Re: long nroff tables

2021-01-20 Thread Oliver Corff
Hi James, try this: TS H center nospaces tab(:); lb s l l. Service Branches _ Service     : Person in Charge _ .TH Customer Complaints  : Willy Nickel Merchandise Return     : Ebenezer Scrooge .\" fill many, many lines here ... .TE You'll see that tbl treats "Service:Person I

Re: long nroff tables

2021-01-20 Thread ds26gte--- via
Set page length to a very long distance? Perhaps using the max integer possible in groff? --d On Wednesday, January 20, 2021, 11:36:35 AM EST, James K. Lowden wrote: How do I show "infinite" tables in nroff?  When the tbl output doesn't fit on one "page", I get: $ nroff -t foo err