Hi andlabs,
Keith's spotted the treatment of .p and .t as inches...
> 2) I'm trying to make a table (not for this book) that has a single
> empty cell. So I try
>
> \&<tab>A<tab>B
> \ <tab>A<tab>B
> \|<tab>A<tab>B
>
> In all cases, tbl reports that A and B are skipped ("extra data
> entry") or something. I have to do
>
> \m[white].\m[]<tab>A<tab>B
>
> but I don't want to revert to non-portable troff code. What's going on?
Give us a whole example that has the problem from the .TS to the .TE,
including what column layout tbl is being given. For instance, this
works just fine.
.TS
tab(:);
l l.
foo:bar
:empty
.TE
Cheers,
Ralph.
