(Rodos, I get the slug digest which means I don't see slug stuff till later) > I had a quick look at groff but could not find any usefull documentation > on it appart from a man page which was a little sparse. There may be some online doco (tbl is the word), but I confess I used some books. groff is also known as troff. > Can you do complex tables where you can merge cells either virtically or > horizontally? Can you specify where the lines are drawn around the > boxes to format as you want. Can you put a image (eps) into a groff > document. Yes to all these. Horiz and vertical spanning are the magic words. In my example there are spanning examples. For some reason I got "Typesetting Tables on the Unix System" by McGilton and McNabb. On the back cover were these recommendations: "You're a pair of lunatics" James Gosling, Sun "Good Grief" Ken Greer, Elan "Three hundred pages on TBL?!?" Patrick Power, UM. Groff is the lonely child in the corner. Attempts at friendship produce an initial snarling, but result in long term loyalties. > If it can do all those things then I may go with groff, if I could find > some doco. The doco for Lout was very good. I had some probs with tables with an earlier version of Lout. Lout is also postscript generating, which is hard to get ascii, rtf and html from. groff at least does ascii. The tbl part of groff is very full featured. > Thanks for the tip Jamie. Also check out W.R. Stevens books for a tour-de-force of troff. Jamie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
