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Subject: Table formatters and sample tables
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Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 00:58:19 EDT
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From: Beach.pa@XEROX.ARPA
My current research focus is on the problems with table formatting.  In
the hope of discovering some interesting tools I thought I should ask
this august group.  I know about tbl for troff and LaTeX for TEX.

What other table formatters exist?  Are there interactive front ends to
these packages?  Is there a table preprocessor for Scribe somewhere?  Do
the tools handle math or graphics or tables within tables?

I'd appreciate references to published papers, pointers to implementors
or user documentation, and SAMPLES!  Its always interesting to see how
tough table formatting problems are handled by various tools.

Cheers
Rick Beach
Xerox PARC