walter harms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Stuff like tbl,eqn,... is discouraged (somebody mentioned it before) to keep
> thinks simple.
Discouraging TBL is the wrong advice to give nowadays. It used to make sense,
back before the .\" t convention evolved and when most-third-party viewers
would just ignore .TS/.TE, but the background has changed.
Today I would say "Do use TBL for tables, do *not* make ad-hoc ones using
,ta, because structured TBL is easier for downstream viewers to parse
unambiguously."
(doclifter handles both TBL and ad-hoc tables, so if it weren't for
the viewer-portability issue I would not care about this.)
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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