begin quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 06:00:43PM -0800:
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> I will point out again that making nice-looking tables from
> tab-delimited input is precisely what Unix tbl(1) was built for. And
> that must have been around 1978 or so. The more modern idea of
> converting troff(1) output into HTML comes with groff.
Indeed. I poked at it a bit, but you have to set it up beforehand
with the appropriate (little-understood by me) macros and other
stuff before tbl and groff will do the right thing.
By the time I get done writing a shell-script to prepend the junk
needed to make tbl and groff happy, I'm done with the direct conversion
to html from a TSV file.
> (Ecclesiastes 1:9-14 NIV) What has been will be again, what has been
> done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. {10} Is
> there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? It
> was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.
I need to go to look for a good reference manual for {n,t,g}roff...
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Played with troff. Pretty output. Painful input.
Stewart Stremler
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