> What started that was my early experiences with unix where I went
> to the permuted index and looked for "rename a file". I was not
> plesed when the only thing I could find is the rename(2) system call.
For groff.texinfo, I manually add permuted index entries. I really
doubt (as others do on
> > I asked this some 6 weeks ago but got no answers. hoping that the mail
> > maybe reaches some other list members this time I dare to repeat my
> > question:
I haven't forgotten your email, but I wasn't able to immediately
response, and it moved deeper and deeper into my cueue of unanswered
> Recognition of numbers is handled by \fItbl\/\fP itself:
Thanks for the reminder; I've added something similar to tbl.man.
Werner
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> Here are some patches which do this,
Great!
> basically I'd like feedback as to whether this works on many tbl
> inputs and whether it is useful?
It's definitely useful. Here my list of remarks.
. Please provide a patch with GNU diff's `-u' option.
. Perhaps it is easier to use `.fcolo
> > However I want to have a variable parameter list. At maximum I
> > can have up to 10 parameters. Each parameter opens a new row. If
> > the Parameter is empty the do not open a new row.
>
> [snip]
>
> I can't think of a simple way to make this work. The problem lies
> in the nature of tbl
> Hopefully I'm not too off-topic here as troffcvt isn't really groff,
> but anyway perhaps someone can help...
I can only give generic help.
> $ tblcvt test.roff | troff2rtf -ms > test.rtf
> cannot read macro file for -ms
>
> .. which, according to the man page is "fatal". Even setting
> TROFF
