Re: [Groff] Suppressing tbl header on first page

[Robert Goulding]

Quoting Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:

> 
> > I can't find any description of how to do this simple task anywhere.
> > Having set up a multi-page table with
> > 
> > .TS H
> > <header>
> > .TH
> > ...
> > 
> > is there any way to ensure that the continuation header does *not*
> > appear on the first page of the table?
> 
> No.  The ms macros don't have this feature.  Here a quick hack to do
> it:
> 
>   .rn tbl*print-header tbl*print-header-old
>   .
>   .de tbl*print-header
>   .  mk #T
>   ..
>   .
>   .TS H
>   <header>
>   .TH
>   .
>   .rn tbl*print-header-old tbl*print-header
>   ...
>   .TE
> 

Thanks, Werner.  I applied this idea also to the -me macros, with success:

.rn TH TH-OLD
.\" The definition of TH follows, simply without the line .|h which
.\" outputs the heading diversion.
.de TH
.nr T. 0
.T# 0
.di
.nr _T \\n(?T
.nr ?T 0
.ne \\n(dnu+1v
.nr ?T \\n(_T
.nr _i \\n(.i
.in 0
.in \\n(_iu
.rr _i
.mk #T
..
.TS H
 <header>
.TH
.
.rn TH-OLD TH
...
.TE

-- 
Robert Goulding
Program of Liberal Studies
University of Notre Dame