Re: [Groff] Creating a table macro

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I'll try that, though this isn't for a man page necessarily.

This was an example situation as I use tables for other purposes as
well. I usually know the columns and formatting but have unknown row-counts.

I see now, that for most purposes, macros involving preprocessors should
be avoided. I suppose one alternative would be to use special tags
within comments to be targeted with sed/perl/tt/m4 later.

Thanks ~

Chad Roseburg

On 05/19/2011 12:22 PM, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> 
>> Currently I am using two column tables for creating diagrams
>> explaining command syntax. The number of columns and formatting
>> remain the same but row-count is the changing variable.
> 
> Perhaps you could use tagged paragraphs for this purpose?
> That's how the descriptions of command-line options are
> traditionally formatted in the manpage macros.
> 
> 
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