Re: Is there any way to make alternate rows of a table have a light gray background?

[Boss Hog]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 02:53:52PM -0400, T. Kurt Bond wrote:
> I have never used hdtbl, and it looks like it can do exactly what I want.
> Thank you.
> 
> However, when I tried the following, modified from groff_hdtbl(7):
> 
> .LP
> Something goes here.
> .TBL cols=3
> . TR .TD 1*1 ".TD rowspan=2" 1+2*2 .TD 1*3
> . TR .TD 2*1 .TD 2*3
> .ETB
> .LP
> Something else ends here.
> 
> I was surprised by the output:
> [image: image.png]
> The table appears *above* the first paragraph.  I was expecting it to be
> between the two paragraphs.  Is there a way to force it to appear between
> the two paragraphs?
> 

Add a .br after the upper paragraph and a .br before the lower
paragraph.