RE: [Groff] Automatically line breaking in tbl

[Ted Harding]

Heloo Luc,

On 02-Jan-01 IMBERT Luc wrote:
> Hello and happy new year to everyone !

And a very happy new year to you, and to everyine else.

> However, I've encountered some problems, but the following one is the
> most annoying : when I edit a table with a very long item, no line
> break occurs so the rows gets very long,

> Here is a stupid example :
> .TS
> center,box,tab(|);
> lb lb
> l l.
> Number|Text
> 23|This is a very very very very very very very very very very very
> very very very very very very very very very very very very very long
> line
> .TE

You need to make his entry as a "Text Block": open the block
with T{ ewnding a line, and close it with T} beginning a line.

So your example would be:

.TS
center,box,tab(|);
lb lb
l l.
Number|Text
23|T{
This is a very very very very very very very very very very very
very very very very very very very very very very very very very long
line
T}
.TE

You can continue the row of the table after the T}, e.g.

.TS
center,box,tab(|);
lb lb
l l l.
Number|Text|Number
23|T{
This is a very very very very very very very very very very very
very very very very very very very very very very very very very long
line
T}|45
.TE

Best wishes,
Ted.

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