Subject: Re: Table workaround
From: WJCarpenter (bill-abisource@carpenter.ORG)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2000 - 15:06:53 CST
ms> I posted an idea along these lines a month ago but Eric shot me
ms> down with the counter example of a cell spanning multiple rows.
And to think that just 2 months ago I gave away my ancient copy of
"Typesetting Tables with troff". Aside: I just did an Amazon search
for that phrase and it didn't find the book. No surprise ... surely
out of print. However, here are the "close matches":
Talking Dirty With the Queen of Clean by Linda C. Cobb, et al
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's
Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
Conversations With God : An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 1) by Neale Donald Walsch
tbl had a decent model for tables (lots of implementation problems in
the Bell Labs version, though), and was a 2 pass algorithm. It has
column spanning, row spanning, and makes thousand of julienne fries in
just seconds. Have any of you tablers looked at it for inspiration?
It's kind of the grand-daddy in the mix. I once did a project that
automatically typeset a book containing several 75+ page tables with
it.
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