Re: [Groff] Tbl - repeating column titles

[nigel.gunton]

On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Blake McBride wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I have a table that spans several pages.  I would like the tbl column
> titles to repeat at the top of each page (*independently *of the page
> title).  Can tbl do this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Blake McBride

I'm not an expert but I think that by breaking the table into smaller 
sections and using the table header options you will get what you are 
after. Something along the lines of

.TS H
options;
format section.
main header
.TH
data
.TE
.TS H
options;
format section.
main header
.TH N
data
.TE

The column headers will only be repeated if the next segment is on a new 
page


The above was taken from Unix Text Processing, Dale Dougherty & Tim 
O'Reilly

HTH,

Nigel


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