Odd indeed. I *did* attach the html output and it disappeared in both
instances.
Anyway, if you take the .tbl files and process them via
mandoc -T html my_table.tbl > output.html
you are going to get the same results, hopefully.
Best regards,
Oliver.
On 05/03/2021 22:52, Oliver Corff wrote:
PS: Somehow I missed to add the output of the first table. Sorry!
I have a second example which uses the .T& table continuation header,
and unlike the animal husbandry example, the furniture example does not
handle well .T& even though the table is much smaller. I also attach the
PDF to show the
Hi Anthony,
You made my day! I had known the alternative manpage formatter mandoc by
name for a while but I had never been aware of its built-in tbl
processing capabilities.
I challenged the mdoc(7) instructions by by providing an extremely
minimal file, being just a wrapper, to my tabular mater
Hi Oliver,
Oliver Corff writes:
> My problem: I reconstructed approx. 1,400 tables with varying degrees of
> complexity and size; the two examples attached give a good indication of
> both ends of the spectrum.
>
> My status: All 1,400 tables were converted to pdf and png by wrapping
> the tbl cod
> - Eric Raymond's doclifter. I failed because I could not construct
> a minimal .ms document which would not be rejected by doclifter, and
> every time I try the error message relates to "internal errors". I
> fail at making doclifter accept documents as simple as the following
> one: [...]
N
Dear All,
Before writing these lines I tried to locate earlier discussions on tbl
to html output, but given 1,390 hits on "tbl" in the search window
alone, I did not find appropriate messages. I remember, though, that
there are some very good reasons why tbl should be rendered as html and
not as
