Re: An example of a multiplication table: some unresolved questions

2023-05-31 Thread Oliver Corff
Dear Thomas, that works like a charm. Thank you indeed! On 30/05/2023 10:09, Thomas Dupond via wrote: Dear Oliver, Using .nf is also important but I think it is not clear from the manual (either info or groff(7)) that this is needed, if only for getting rid of the 'cant break line' errors. I

Re: An example of a multiplication table: some unresolved questions

2023-05-30 Thread Thomas Dupond via
Dear Oliver, Le 2023-05-30 à 09:17, Oliver Corff a écrit : Dear Thomas, thank you very much indeed. Beyond your critical correction of using a genuine tab (0x09) character instead of \t, it was \c which does the trick. Furthermore, my setting of tab stops had been flawed. Using .nf is also

Re: An example of a multiplication table: some unresolved questions

2023-05-30 Thread Oliver Corff
Dear Thomas, thank you very much indeed. Beyond your critical correction of using a genuine tab (0x09) character instead of \t, it was \c which does the trick. Furthermore, my setting of tab stops had been flawed. I now use .ta T 6m which works as desired. Yet I still run into a now

Re: An example of a multiplication table: some unresolved questions

2023-05-29 Thread Thomas Dupond via
Dear Oliver, Oliver Corff wrote: > Dear All, > > the attached attempt to create a multiplication table was inspired by > https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Multiplication_tables > > but I fail to do the right thing with regard to typesetting the computed > output. > > I followed the groff manual,

An example of a multiplication table: some unresolved questions

2023-05-28 Thread Oliver Corff
Dear All, the attached attempt to create a multiplication table was inspired by https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Multiplication_tables but I fail to do the right thing with regard to typesetting the computed output. I followed the groff manual, section Tabs and Fields, and set up my tab positions