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* table borders don't span entire width
@ 2019-02-08 21:43 Anthony J. Bentley
  2019-02-08 22:02 ` Ingo Schwarze
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Anthony J. Bentley @ 2019-02-08 21:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tech

Hi,

In response to a mailing list question I tried out an example from
The Awk Programming Language. The tbl(7) source it generates looks
in part like this:

.TS
center;
n n n n.
_	_	_	_
2173	77.1	13765	53.6
=	=	=	=
.TE

groff creates solid lines as in the book:

                   ---------------------------
                   2173   77.1   13765   53.6
                   ---------------------------

But mandoc breaks the lines between cells:

                          ----   ----   -----   ----
                          2173   77.1   13765   53.6
                          ====   ====   =====   ====

Side note: while using = for the double line is an improvement over
groff, in UTF-8 the double line is output with U+2501. Wouldn't U+2550
be more appropriate? The typeset output displays a double line, not a
heavy line.

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