Re: [Groff] groff "overflow" and tbl empty cell problems

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi andlabs,

Keith's spotted the treatment of .p and .t as inches...

> 2) I'm trying to make a table (not for this book) that has a single
> empty cell. So I try
> 
> \&<tab>A<tab>B
> \ <tab>A<tab>B
> \|<tab>A<tab>B
> 
> In all cases, tbl reports that A and B are skipped ("extra data
> entry") or something. I have to do
> 
> \m[white].\m[]<tab>A<tab>B
> 
> but I don't want to revert to non-portable troff code. What's going on?

Give us a whole example that has the problem from the .TS to the .TE,
including what column layout tbl is being given.  For instance, this
works just fine.

    .TS
    tab(:);
    l l.
    foo:bar
    :empty
    .TE

Cheers,


Ralph.