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diff --git a/doc/groff.html.node/Fields.html b/doc/groff.html.node/Fields.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6e1754a --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/groff.html.node/Fields.html @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html> +<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 7.0.3, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> +<head> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> +<!-- This manual documents GNU troff version 1.23.0. + +Copyright © 1994-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no +Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A +copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free +Documentation License". --> +<title>Fields (The GNU Troff Manual)</title> + +<meta name="description" content="Fields (The GNU Troff Manual)"> +<meta name="keywords" content="Fields (The GNU Troff Manual)"> +<meta name="resource-type" content="document"> +<meta name="distribution" content="global"> +<meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> +<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> + +<link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> +<link href="Request-Index.html" rel="index" title="Request Index"> +<link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> +<link href="Tabs-and-Fields.html" rel="up" title="Tabs and Fields"> +<link href="Leaders.html" rel="prev" title="Leaders"> +<style type="text/css"> +<!-- +a.copiable-link {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} +div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} +span.r {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal} +span:hover a.copiable-link {visibility: visible} +strong.def-name {font-family: monospace; font-weight: bold; font-size: larger} +--> +</style> + + +</head> + +<body lang="en"> +<div class="subsection-level-extent" id="Fields"> +<div class="nav-panel"> +<p> +Previous: <a href="Leaders.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Leaders</a>, Up: <a href="Tabs-and-Fields.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Tabs and Fields</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Request-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> +</div> +<hr> +<h4 class="subsection" id="Fields-1">5.12.2 Fields</h4> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-fields"></a> + +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-field-delimiting-character-_0028fc_0029"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-delimiting-character_002c-for-fields-_0028fc_0029"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-character_002c-field-delimiting-_0028fc_0029"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-field-padding-character-_0028fc_0029"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-padding-character_002c-for-fields-_0028fc_0029"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-character_002c-field-padding-_0028fc_0029"></a> +<p><em class="dfn">Fields</em> are a more general way of laying out tabular data. A field +is defined as the data between a pair of <em class="dfn">delimiting characters</em>. +It contains substrings that are separated by <em class="dfn">padding characters</em>. +The width of a field is the distance on the <em class="emph">input</em> line from the +position where the field starts to the next tab stop. A padding +character inserts an adjustable space similar to TeX’s <code class="code">\hss</code> +command (thus it can even be negative) to make the sum of all substring +lengths plus the adjustable space equal to the field width. If more +than one padding character is inserted, the available space is evenly +distributed among them. +</p> +<dl class="first-deffn"> +<dt class="deffn" id="index-_002efc"><span class="category-def">Request: </span><span><strong class="def-name"><code class="t">.fc</code></strong> <var class="def-var-arguments">[<span class="r"><i class="slanted">delim-char</i></span> [<span class="r"><i class="slanted">padding-char</i></span>]]</var><a class="copiable-link" href='#index-_002efc'> ¶</a></span></dt> +<dd><a class="index-entry-id" id="index-fc"></a> +<p>Define a delimiting and a padding character for fields. If the latter +is missing, the padding character defaults to a space character. If +there is no argument at all, the field mechanism is disabled (which is +the default). In contrast to, e.g., the tab repetition character, +delimiting and padding characters are <em class="emph">not</em> associated with the +environment (see <a class="pxref" href="Environments.html">Environments</a>). +</p> +<div class="example"> +<div class="group"><pre class="example-preformatted">.fc # ^ +.ta T 3i +#foo^bar^smurf# +.br +#foo^^bar^smurf# + ⇒ foo bar smurf + ⇒ foo bar smurf +</pre></div></div> +</dd></dl> + + + +</div> + + + +</body> +</html> |