[Groff] Re: Nested Tables using basic tbl nroff and col commands

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Trey,

> I have been having trouble getting nested tables to work. I noticed
> your contact information on the troff.org website and I have no idea
> who to contact after searching for answers for a couple of days now. I
> hope that I have found the right person. 

Use the address@hidden mailing list.  See

    http://troff.org/community.html

> I want to have a .TS...TE table inside of a text block in a cell of
> another table. The obvious way to get this to work didn't work so I
> have tried several sneaky ways of getting it to work including writing
> the nested table in a different file and tbl preprocessing it using
> the .sy command and then getting the preprocessed input using the .so
> command, but this didn't work either. It worked fine outside of the
> main table, but if I put the .sy and .so commands inside the text
> block it gave me a memory error which I think has something to do with
> too many registers or something, but I am not sure.

See the `nesting tbl' thread that occurred last year on the list.  If
that doesn't help, come back to address@hidden

    http://www.ffii.org/archive/mails/groff/2002/Aug/0247.html

> In addition, does basic UNIX nroff support multi-byte languages?

groff's nroff does AIUI.  You can `groff -Tutf8'.  Again, the
address@hidden will be able to answer better.

Cheers,


Ralph.