tbl: how can I make entries not span a page?
Mark Harrison
harrison at necssd.NEC.COM
Fri Jun 1 01:35:06 AEST 1990
I have written a program that generates tbl output. The basic format
of the output is something like this:
+-------+-----------------------+-----------------------------+
| 001 | title of first item | text description of first |
| | | item which spans several |
| | | lines. |
+-------+-----------------------+-----------------------------+
| 002 | title of second item | text description of second |
| | | item which spans several |
| | | lines. |
+-------+-----------------------+-----------------------------+
etc...
I am specifying the horizontal lines by printing an "_" before
each item. I am specifying the third column using T{/T} delimiters:
My problem: Occasionally an item will span a page. Is there a way
I can specify that if an item spans a page to go to the next page,
in a manner similar to mm's .DS/.DE display delimiters?
+-------+----------------------+------------------------------+
| 002 | title of second item | text description of second |
-----------------------PAGE--BREAK----------------------------------------
| | | item which spans several |
| | | lines. |
+-------+-----------------------+-----------------------------+
Thanks in advance,
Mark
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