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Re: [Groff] Is there an easy way to find out the width of the mo


From: M Bianchi
Subject: Re: [Groff] Is there an easy way to find out the width of the mo
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 09:16:04 -0500

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:04:08PM +0100, Gunnar Ritter wrote:
> M Bianchi <address@hidden> wrote:
> > If it is always created in groff tbl(1), can we get this documented in the 
> > man
> > page?  As part of  GNU TBL ENHANCEMENTS ?
> But \n(TW is not a GNU tbl enhancement. It has always
> been part of tbl and is documented in the "Usage" chapter
> of Mike Lesk's original paper.

Sure enough, there it is, in the paragraph above EXAMPLES.
I've been using tbl(1) since the mid-1970s and somehow missed that.

I still think it should be mentioned in the man page.

-- 
 Mike Bianchi




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