Re: [Groff] tbl: contolling table width

[Mike Bianchi]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 04:05:12PM +0400, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> I  am trying to adopt tbl for typesetting tables and
> have found one problem that I don't know from  which
> side to approach. It is connected with table width.
> 
> How  to  make my tables' width dependent on the line
> length setting? For example, should I want to  type-
> set  my document with another line width, I'd prefer
> to change only one setting instead of modifying  the
> format strings of all the tables.
> 
> The  problem  is  that tbl is a pre-processor and no
> register interpolations are made by tbl.
> 
> In the simplest scenario it can be assumed that only
> the  last column of my tables must be 'stretchable'.
> Is it  possible  to  have  its  width  automatically
> adjusted so that the table would take maximum possi-
> ble width (taking into account the current indent)?

Anton,

Are you using the  expand  global option?  See tbl(1).
That makes the table as wide as the line.

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