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TBL2 2012–13 Season
Part of the troff suite of Unix document layout tools, tbl is a preprocessor that formats tables in preparation for processing with troff/nroff. Overview Mike Lesk is the original author of tbl. Like the main troff program, it uses command lines interspersed with data to be printed. Because of the nature of tabular data having rows and columns, tbl commands also intraline delimiters for fields and to indicate where to draw lines. First a line starting with .TS, followed by full table options such as center to center the table on a line or box to draw a box around it (boxes in tbl are drawn with overlapping hyphens and underscores; there were no line drawing commands at the time of creation. Disjoint edges can be observed upon close inspection). Succeeding lines set up the formatting of each cell in the table with one character flags, such as c to center data in its cell, hyphens to draw horizontal rules, vertical bars to draw vertical rules, and carets to span cells verticall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Lesk
Michael E. Lesk (born 1945) is an American computer scientist. Biography In the 1960s, Michael Lesk worked for the SMART Information Retrieval System project, wrote much of its retrieval code and did many of the retrieval experiments, as well as obtaining a BA degree in Physics and Chemistry from Harvard College in 1964 and a PhD from Harvard University in Chemical Physics in 1969. From 1970 to 1984, Lesk worked at Bell Labs in the group that built Unix. Lesk wrote Unix tools for word processing (''tbl'', ''Refer (software), refer'', and the standard ''ms'' macro package, all for ''troff''), for compiling (''Lex (software), Lex''), and for networking (''uucp''). He also wrote the Portable I/O Library (the predecessor to stdio.h in C (programming language), C) and contributed significantly to the development of the C (programming language), C language preprocessor. In 1984, he left to work for Bellcore, where he managed the computer science research group. There, Lesk worked on s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |