RE: [Groff] Centering with tables

[Konovalov, Vadim]

Instead of

.ce 2

use

.ad c

".ce" request is probably not what you want in your case.


<!ENTITY Vadim REALLIFE "Vadim V.Konovalov, St.Petersburg, Russia">
&Vadim;

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Lawrence [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 7:54 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Groff] Centering with tables
> 
> 
> I've been having a problem getting a column heading to center
> properly. For a table described this way:
> 
>      1        .TS
>      2        box, tab(|), center;
>      3        c s s s || c s s s
>      4        c s s s || c s c s
>      5        c s s s || c s | c s
>      6        c s s s || c s | c s
>      7        c s s s || c c | c c.
>      8        T{
>      9        .nf
>     10        .ce 2
>     11        \fBTable title\fR
>     12        \s-2Subtitle
>     13        .ps
>     14        .fi
>     15        T}|Arabic Letter
>     16        \^|A|B
>     17        \^|_|_
>     18        \^|Roman numeral|Roman numeral
>     19        \^|I|II|I|II
>     20        =
>     21        .T&
>     22        c c | c c || l | l | l | l.
>     23        Direction|Up|Position|Out|a|b|c|d
>     24        \^|\^|\^|\^|_|_|_|_
>     25        \^|\^|\^|In|a|b|c|d
>     26        \^|\^|_|_|_|_|_|_
>     27        \^|Down|Position|Out|a|b|c|d
>     28        \^|\^|\^|\^|_|_|_|_
>     29        \^|\^|\^|In|a|b|c|d
>     30        .TE
> 
> 
> I've gotten the following with "groff -t -Tascii":
> 
> 
> +----------------------------------++------------------------------+
> |                                  ||        Arabic Letter         |
> |                Table title       ||      A               B       |
> |                 Subtitle         |+--------------+---------------+
> |                                  ||Roman numeral | Roman numeral |
> |                                  || I       II   |  I       II   |
> +-----------------+----------------++------+-------+-------+-------+
> |                 |            Out ||a     |b      | c     |d      |
> |             Up  | Position       |+------+-------+-------+-------+
> |                 |            In  ||a     |b      | c     |d      |
> |Direction        +----------------++------+-------+-------+-------+
> |                 |            Out ||a     |b      | c     |d      |
> |            Down | Position       |+------+-------+-------+-------+
> |                 |            In  ||a     |b      | c     |d      |
> +-----------------+----------------++------+-------+-------+-------+
> 
> The problem is that the "Table title" and "Subtitle" parts, although
> centered relative to each other, are not centered within their block.
> The same problem shows up in the postscript output if I leave off the
> "-Tascii" switch. If I remove the .ce command in line 10, I get 
> 
> +----------------------------------++------------------------------+
> |                                  ||        Arabic Letter         |
> |           Table title            ||      A               B       |
> |           Subtitle               |+--------------+---------------+
> |                                  ||Roman numeral | Roman numeral |
> |                                  || I       II   |  I       II   |
> +-----------------+----------------++------+-------+-------+-------+
> |                 |            Out ||a     |b      | c     |d      |
> |             Up  | Position       |+------+-------+-------+-------+
> |                 |            In  ||a     |b      | c     |d      |
> |Direction        +----------------++------+-------+-------+-------+
> |                 |            Out ||a     |b      | c     |d      |
> |            Down | Position       |+------+-------+-------+-------+
> |                 |            In  ||a     |b      | c     |d      |
> +-----------------+----------------++------+-------+-------+-------+
> 
> Which is exactly what I would expect, though not what I want because
> the subtitle isn't centered under the title.
> 
> Have I found a bug in tbl or do I simply not understand how it's
> supposed to work?
> 
> --
> Mark Lawrence
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