Re: Long text in tbl won't wrap, maybe related to mom

2021-02-05 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Fri, Feb 05, 2021, Bento Borges Schirmer wrote: > 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 exc

Re: Long text in tbl won't wrap, maybe related to mom

2021-02-05 Thread Bento Borges Schirmer
Hey > I can't remember if the groff mailing list allows small attachments or not, so I'm trying to attach the mom source I used (in a .zip so the tabs won't get modified) and the output pdf it produces to this email. > > Oh, and the slightly munged version of groff from git I was using was 1.22.4.

Re: Long text in tbl won't wrap, maybe related to mom

2021-02-05 Thread Bento Borges Schirmer
Hey, thanks for the quick response! > I don't know what the intended appearance was supposed to be, but > this sort-of works; substitute a tab-character for each ... Sorry about my omission, but I did use tab; I guess they were replaced by spaces after sending the e-mail, however. For instan

Re: Long text in tbl won't wrap, maybe related to mom

2021-02-05 Thread Mike Bianchi
I don't know what the intended appearance was supposed to be, but this sort-of works; substitute a tab-character for each ... .TS expand; cb s s s c | c | c s ltiw(1i) | ltw(2i) | lp8 | lw(1.6i)p8. Some Interesting Places _ NameD

Long text in tbl won't wrap, maybe related to mom

2021-02-05 Thread Bento Borges Schirmer
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 T