I don't know what the intended appearance was supposed to be, but this sort-of works; substitute a tab-character for each <TAB> ...
.TS expand; cb s s s c | c | c s ltiw(1i) | ltw(2i) | lp8 | lw(1.6i)p8. Some Interesting Places _ Name<TAB>Description<TAB>Practical Information _ T{ American Museum of Natural History T} T{ The collections fill 11.5 acres (Michelin) or 25 acres (MTA) of exhibition halls on four floors. There is a full-sized replica of a blue whale and the world's largest star sapphire (stolen in 1964). T}<TAB>Hours 10-5:45 S M Tu Th, 10-9 W Sat. Sun. <TAB><TAB>Location<TAB>T{ Central Park West & 79th St. T} <TAB>Admission<TAB>Donation: $1.00 asked <TAB>Subway<TAB>AA to 81st St. <TAB>Telephone<TAB>212-769-5100 _ .TE The <TAB> characters used to delineate columns disappears in normal printing. Mike On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 11:05:58AM -0300, Bento Borges Schirmer wrote: > Hello > > I'm having great joy composing little documents for some homework and > assignments using groff and the mom package. Yesterday I wanted to learn how > to > make tables so I read through mom's excellent documentation and > reproduced all tables except the last one from L. L. Cherry and M. E. > Lesk's Tbl -- A Program > to Format Tables, when I encountered a problem where the lines wouldn't wrap: > > .PRINTSTYLE TYPESET > .START > .TS > expand; > cb s s s > c | c | c s > ltiw(1i) | ltw(2i) | lp8 | lw(1.6i)p8. > Some Interesting Places > _ > Name Description Practical Information > _ > T{ > American Museum of Natural History > T} T{ > The collections fill 11.5 acres (Michelin) or 25 acres (MTA) > of exhibition halls on four floors. There is a full-sized replica > of a blue whale and the world's largest star sapphire (stolen in 1964). > T} Hours 10-5:45 S M Tu Th, 10-9 W Sat. Sun. > \^ \^ Location T{ > Central Park West & 79th St. > T} > \^ \^ Admission Donation: $1.00 asked > \^ \^ Subway AA to 81st St. > \^ \^ Telephone 212-769-5100 > _ > .TE > > This is a minimal version of the last example from the tbl document that > reproduces the funny behavior. It breaks the line as in the source, but the > table grows beyond the page and doesn't stay as nice as seen e.g. on the troff > FAQ or when using groff -Tpdf -t -ms. Am I missing something? Is there any > workaround? I don't mind manually breaking the lines, of course. > > Best regards, > Bento > -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com