From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: RTF for emacs Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 02:38:26 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87mwe4awe5.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <878upp5wto.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <871tvhlaf4.fsf@indiana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401151225 18653 80.91.229.3 (27 May 2014 00:40:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 00:40:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 27 02:40:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wp5RB-00021w-Il for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 May 2014 02:40:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59098 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wp5RB-0005BP-2u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 May 2014 20:40:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 51 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: u+UUXbnu1hlDFr5pMibebQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:8aRDMzg8AalWqW96egozF+y0vt4= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205624 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97894 Archived-At: By the way, speaking of tables - did you know there can be tables in the Unix man pages? I think it looks awesome and I don't understand why the man page writers don't employ it more often. Perhaps they don't know about it or perhaps they just don't enjoy spending time with documentation. I did a bit of that a long time ago and the groff looks like this: .TS box tab(@); llllll. okt@dec@hex@tecken@namn@skrivs i C _ 000@0@00@NUL@@\e0 001@1@01@SOH@start of heading 002@2@02@ST@start of text 003@3@03@ET@end of text 004@4@04@EOT@end of transmission 005@5@05@ENQ@enquiry 006@6@06@ACK@acknowledge etc. etc. .TE Explanation: .TS is (I suppose) "table start", and .TE is "table end"; box tab(@); sets the tab delimiter char (for reasons long forgotten, the default wouldn't do in this case - perhaps it conflicted with the data somehow); llllll. is the alignment of the cells, i.e, left; and, the underscore symbolizes a straight line. Here is a dump to show how it looks [1], the full source [2], and a mini-tutorial [3] (ancient stuff but should be mostly correct). [1] http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/man_sv/ascii_dumps/in_urxvt.png [2] http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/man_sv/ascii_files/ascii.7 [3] http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/man_sv/index.html -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573