Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: ekkardgerlach Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: convert text with tab stops to table Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 12:54:24 +0200 Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net nramq3nDvbT4CWCh6+asawP5xcKV2GzGQw295/TCjcgAyS/WnIG7yolPpfFKWSm/Jz Cancel-Lock: sha1:CtKaPxCOMHyeww8IyG40/WJfm+Y= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101026 SUSE/3.0.10 Thunderbird/3.0.10 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:5372 correction: *with* tab stops i wrote: > Hi, > any tool available to convert a ascii-text with tab stops to a table > according to tabs? > > a2ps considers tab stops but squeezes two short text sections with two > tabs to *one* column. I need a strict a conversion to a table where any > tab stop starts a new column. > > The aim is a postscript file that is printable. > > tia > Ekkard