Re: [Groff] tbl query

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Robert,

> I'm making a table with a lot of long text entries in it.  tbl
> justifies such entries at both margins.  But this looks terrible in a
> fairly narrow column - large gaps open up between words.  What I've
> been doing is entering the text as
> 
> T{
> .na
> sd hfkjh sdkfh s
> T}
> 
> but this is a bore, given that I have nearly a hundred such entries.
> Is there any way to make tbl *stop* justifying T{...T} blocks?

Have you tried `.na' immediately prior to the .TS?  I'd expect it to
last for the duration of the table.  If you look at tbl's output, it
does

    .de 3init
    ...
    .ad \n[.j]

and then uses 3init quite often.

Cheers,


Ralph.