Re: [Groff] tables side-by-side

[Tadziu Hoffmann]

> I had to study your example to understand it.  It looks very
> robust because, except for TS/TE, it leaves the ms macros out
> of the equation.  

That was mainly for two reasons: (a) I wanted to demonstrate the
general principle independent of any macro package, and (b) I'm
not really proficient in ms to judge what the "best practices"
would be in this case.

However, I've played around a bit and come up with a solution
using only ms macros and troff primitives officially endorsed
for use with ms, plus mark and return.  It works without
explicit diversions, at the cost of having to manually adjust
for possibly different heights of the two blocks (which might
not be an issue for you if both tables have exactly the same
height and there are no table notes).

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