Re: [Groff] Tbl - repeating column titles

On Thu 24 Sep 2015 18:47:19 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > It may pre-date your time on this list, but some of us here re-entered > the book as troff source from the scan after I got Tim O'Reilly's > permission. http://home.windstream.net/kollar/utp/ > > Cheers, Ralph. You can retrieve the pdf with

[Groff] Tbl - repeating column titles

Greetings, I have a table that spans several pages. I would like the tbl column titles to repeat at the top of each page (*independently *of the page title). Can tbl do this? Thanks. Blake McBride

Re: [Groff] Tbl - repeating column titles

Blake McBride wrote: > I have a table that spans several pages. I would like the tbl column > titles to repeat at the top of each page (*independently *of the page > title). Can tbl do this? At least with -ms or -mm you can write something like .TS H box; cb cb cb l l l.

Re: [Groff] Tbl - repeating column titles

That did it. Thanks! Didn't know about TS with H and TH. Where is that best documented? (The man page mentions them in the bugs section but it is incomplete.) Thanks. Blake On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:12 AM, wrote: > Blake McBride wrote: > > > I

Re: [Groff] Tbl - repeating column titles

On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Blake McBride wrote: Greetings, I have a table that spans several pages. I would like the tbl column titles to repeat at the top of each page (*independently *of the page title). Can tbl do this? Thanks. Blake McBride I'm not an expert but I think that by breaking

Re: [Groff] Tbl - repeating column titles

> Didn't know about TS with H and TH. Where is that best documented? (The > man page mentions them in the bugs section but it is incomplete.) As Nigel mentioned this is e.g. documented in "Unix Text Processing", Dale Dougherty & Tim O'Reilly page 224 (available at

Re: [Groff] Tbl - repeating column titles

Hi Carsten, > > Didn't know about TS with H and TH. Where is that best documented? > > (The man page mentions them in the bugs section but it is > > incomplete.) > > As Nigel mentioned this is e.g. documented in "Unix Text Processing", > Dale Dougherty & Tim O'Reilly page 224 (available at >

Re: [Groff] Tbl - repeating column titles

Hi Ralph, > It may pre-date your time on this list, but some of us here re-entered > the book as troff source from the scan after I got Tim O'Reilly's > permission. http://home.windstream.net/kollar/utp/ yes, I know that and long time ago I mirrored that sources to my HDD. But up to now did

Re: [Groff] Tbl - repeating column titles

On 24/09/15 18:47, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >> As Nigel mentioned this is e.g. documented in "Unix Text >> Processing", Dale Dougherty & Tim O'Reilly page 224 (available >> at http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/). > > It may pre-date your time on this list, but some of us here > re-entered the book