On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Jamie Honan wrote:
> Don't everybody laugh at once but my suggestion is groff.
> Use tables, which you can manipulate with your perl.
>
> groff -t -Tascii file.rof -> file.ascii
> groff -t file.rof -> file.ps
> ps2pdf file.ps -> file.pdf
>
> Admittedly you have to read up on tbl. If you know latex, you might
> find that easier.
>
> Here's a bit of tbl. Tha blanks are tabs.
I had a quick look at groff but could not find any usefull documentation
on it appart from a man page which was a little sparse.
Can you do complex tables where you can merge cells either virtically or
horizontally? Can you specify where the lines are drawn around the
boxes to format as you want. Can you put a image (eps) into a groff
document.
If it can do all those things then I may go with groff, if I could find
some doco. The doco for Lout was very good.
Thanks for the tip Jamie.
Rodos
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