Re: Long text in tbl won't wrap, maybe related to mom

[Mike Bianchi]

I don't know what the intended appearance was supposed to be, but
this sort-of works;  substitute a tab-character for each  <TAB>   ...

        .TS
        expand;
        cb s s s
        c | c | c s
        ltiw(1i) | ltw(2i) | lp8 | lw(1.6i)p8.
        Some Interesting Places
        _
        Name<TAB>Description<TAB>Practical Information
        _
        T{
        American Museum of Natural History
        T}      T{
        The collections fill 11.5 acres (Michelin) or 25 acres (MTA)
        of exhibition halls on four floors.  There is a full-sized replica
        of a blue whale and the world's largest star sapphire (stolen in 1964).
        T}<TAB>Hours   10-5:45 S M Tu Th, 10-9 W Sat.  Sun.
        <TAB><TAB>Location<TAB>T{
        Central Park West & 79th St.
        T}
        <TAB>Admission<TAB>Donation: $1.00 asked
        <TAB>Subway<TAB>AA to 81st St.
        <TAB>Telephone<TAB>212-769-5100
        _
        .TE

The <TAB> characters used to delineate columns disappears in normal printing.

                                                                Mike

On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 11:05:58AM -0300, Bento Borges Schirmer wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm having great joy composing little documents for some homework and
> assignments using groff and the mom package. Yesterday I wanted to learn how 
> to
> make tables so I read through mom's excellent documentation and
> reproduced all tables except the last one from L. L. Cherry and M. E.
> Lesk's Tbl -- A Program
> to Format Tables, when I encountered a problem where the lines wouldn't wrap:
> 
> .PRINTSTYLE TYPESET
> .START
> .TS
> expand;
> cb s s s
> c | c | c s
> ltiw(1i) | ltw(2i) | lp8 | lw(1.6i)p8.
> Some Interesting Places
> _
> Name    Description     Practical Information
> _
> T{
> American Museum of Natural History
> T}      T{
> The collections fill 11.5 acres (Michelin) or 25 acres (MTA)
> of exhibition halls on four floors. There is a full-sized replica
> of a blue whale and the world's largest star sapphire (stolen in 1964).
> T}      Hours   10-5:45 S M Tu Th, 10-9 W Sat. Sun.
> \^      \^      Location        T{
> Central Park West & 79th St.
> T}
> \^      \^      Admission       Donation: $1.00 asked
> \^      \^      Subway  AA to 81st St.
> \^      \^      Telephone       212-769-5100
> _
> .TE
> 
> This is a minimal version of the last example from the tbl document that
> reproduces the funny behavior. It breaks the line as in the source, but the
> table grows beyond the page and doesn't stay as nice as seen e.g. on the troff
> FAQ or when using groff -Tpdf -t -ms. Am I missing something? Is there any
> workaround? I don't mind manually breaking the lines, of course.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bento
> 

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