Subject: flogging a dead horse (If April 1 weren't so far away, I would have waited until then to post this.)
http://swtch.com/tbleps/ tbleps converts tables formatted for troff's tbl(1) preprocessor directly into Encapsulated PostScript, without going through troff. This makes it possible to write tables in tbl format and use them in non-troff (e.g., LaTeX) documents. Russ
