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- .NH
- Tabs
- .PP
- Tabs
- (the \s8ASCII\s0 `horizontal tab' character)
- can be used to produce output in columns,
- or to set the horizontal position of output.
- Typically
- tabs are used only in unfilled text.
- Tab stops are set by default every half inch from the
- current indent,
- but
- can be changed by the
- .BD .ta
- command.
- To set stops every inch, for example,
- .P1
- ^ta 1i 2i 3i 4i 5i 6i
- .P2
- .PP
- Unfortunately the stops are left-justified only
- (as on a typewriter),
- so lining up columns of right-justified numbers can be painful.
- If you have many numbers,
- or if you need more complicated table layout,
- .ul
- don't
- use
- .UL troff
- directly;
- use the
- .UL tbl
- program described in [3].
- .PP
- For a handful of numeric columns, you can do it this way:
- Precede every number by enough blanks to make it line up
- when typed.
- .P1
- ^nf
- ^ta 1i 2i 3i
- \0\01\0\fItab\fR\0\0\02\0\fItab\fR\0\0\03
- \040\0\fItab\fR\0\050\0\fItab\fR\0\060
- 700\0\fItab\fR\0800\0\fItab\fR\0900
- ^fi
- .P2
- Then change each leading blank into the string
- .BD \e0 .
- This is a character that does not print, but that has
- the same width as a digit.
- When printed, this will produce
- .P1
- .ta 1i 2i 3i
- \0\01 \0\02 \0\03
- \040 \050 \060
- 700 800 900
- .P2
- .PP
- It is also possible to fill up tabbed-over space with
- some character other than blanks by setting the `tab replacement character'
- with the
- .BD .tc
- command:
- .P1
- ^ta 1.5i 2.5i
- ^tc \e(ru (\e(ru is "\(ru")
- Name \fItab\fR Age \fItab\fR
- .P2
- produces
- .P1 3
- .ta 1.5i 2.5i
- .tc \(ru
- Name Age
- .tc
- .P2
- To reset the tab replacement character to a blank, use
- .BD .tc
- with no argument.
- (Lines can also be drawn with the
- .BD \el
- command, described in Section 6.)
- .PP
- .UL troff
- also provides a very general mechanism called `fields'
- for setting up complicated columns.
- (This is used by
- .UL tbl ).
- We will not go into it in this paper.