Re: Large curly brackets in tbl

[Oliver Corff]

Dear All,

 a follow-up after a private mail from Doug.

You see my attempts to reproduce a vertical long brace similar to the
example in my previous post.

The output was obtained with

groff -e -t ESB.tbl

and -Tps, which shows rather undernourished braces in the wrong vertical
position.

The pdf output shows boxes instead of the actual symbols.

Regards,

Oliver.

PS: Let's assume I get these braces working, is there any chance to use
PS to rotate them in a tbl cell without breaking everything?

On 25/11/2020 18:36, Oliver Corff wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am new to the groff mailing list; Werner suggested I try to ask here.
>
> Currently I am reproducing (typesetting) a pile of historical material
> which looks as if typeset with roff and the roff tool chain (tbl, eqn
> etc.). My trial output reproducing complex tables looks so similar to
> the printed original that it keeps amazing me, virtually no tweaking
> needed at all from my side to create a genuinely faithful reproduction
> (for historical and educational purposes).
>
> Please forgive me if the following question has been answered before; I
> duly searched the archive before posting but did not find any message
> which covers my problem.
>
> However, a small handful of the tabular material I work with uses large
> curly brackets, both vertical and horizontal; I attach two scanned
> reproductions of my original.
>
> I tried to create an otherwise empty pile in eqn:
>
> # left "" pile { "" above "" above "" above "" } right } #
>
> in order to produce a curly bracket of the desired height, but the
> solution was not robust (output visible in ps but not in pdf, vertically
> grossly misaligned). I am completely clueless with regard to producing a
> horizontal curly bracket akin to TeX \underbrace.
>
> Any pointers towards potential information solutions are appreciated.
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
>
> Oliver.
>
> PS: I discovered the beauty and usefulness of the groff system for my
> particular purpose only a year ago. Compiling a 42 MB text size document
> with 10.000 pages of PDF output and 800 tables is so amazingly fast that
> I am left in speechless admiration.

0_Definitionen.roff
Description: Text Data

ESB.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

ESB.ps
Description: PostScript document

ESB.tbl
Description: Text document