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Conference vaxuum::document_ft

Title:DOCUMENT T1.0
Notice:**New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)**
Moderator:CLOSET::ADLER
Created:Mon Feb 09 1987
Last Modified:Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:897
Total number of notes:4397

722.0. "<LINE> TAG" by BEES::HODGMAN () Tue Jul 28 1987 14:42

I am having trouble with the <LINE> tag.  I want my table to look like this:

CHI              Routine                  Routine
Management       Routine                  Routine     
                 Routine                  Routine    

_________________________________________________

Workstation      Routine                  Routine    
Management       Routine                  Routine    
                 Routine                  Routine    
                 Routine                  Routine    

Instead, the following code introduces a skip and produces:

CHI              Routine                  Routine
Management       
                 Routine                  Routine     
                 Routine                  Routine    

___________________________________________________

Workstation      Routine                  Routine    
Management       
                 Routine                  Routine    
                 Routine                  Routine    
                 Routine                  Routine    

The code:

<TABLE>(CHI Routine Groups\CHI_groups)
<table_ATTRIBUTES>(WIDE)
<TABLE_SETUP>(3\12\30)
<table_HEADS>(Function\<SPAN>(2)Routines)
<TABLE_ROW>(CHI <line> Management\CHI$OPEN_CHI\)
<TABLE_ROW>(\CHI$CLOSE_CHI\)
<table_row>(<span>(3)<rule>)

<table_row>(Workstation <line> Management\CHI$OPEN_WORKSTATION\)
<TABLE_ROW>(\CHI$CLOSE_WORKSTATION\)
<TABLE_ROW>(\CHI$SET_WORKSTATION_ATTR\)
<TABLE_ROW>(\CHI$GET_WORKSTATION_ATTR\)
<table_row>(<span>(3)<rule>)

I know I can make the word following <line> the first element of the
next <table_row>, but I prefer to use the <line> tag for readability. 
Anyone know why this isn't working?

Nancy
T.RTitleUserPersonal
Name		DateLines
722.1Optical IllusionVAXUUM::SEGALTue Jul 28 1987 17:1723
    Each <table_row> is a separate entry in the body of the table
    with approximately one blank line between entries.
    You've entered the routines in column 2 as individual
    <table_row>s, so your output contains the blanks that
    separate the table row entries vertically. <line> simply
    forces text to begin on the next line, within the current column.
    It has no effect on other columns or table rows.
    
    If you want no blank lines, recode using something like this:

<TABLE_ROW>(CHI<line> 
            Management\CHI$OPEN_CHI<line>
                       CHI$CLOSE_CHI\)
<table_row>(<span>(3)<rule>)

<table_row>(Workstation<line>
            Management\CHI$OPEN_WORKSTATION<line>
                       CHI$CLOSE_WORKSTATION<line>
                       CHI$SET_WORKSTATION_ATTR<line>
                       CHI$GET_WORKSTATION_ATTR\)
<endtable>

Lee