Re: convert text mit tab stops to table

From	ekkardgerlach <egerlach@aiai.de>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: convert text mit tab stops to table
Date	2012-05-23 14:21 +0200
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Am 23.05.2012 12:48, schrieb Janis Papanagnou:

> Column also doesn't create postscript, as you initially asked for.
I want to convert the text-file with columns to a postscript AFTER.

> See also the pr(1) command that you find on Unix systems, any which
> handles the TABs the way you like.
> 
> And mind also that column is non-standard (while pr is standard).
thx
But pr is very complicated, nearly no examples available.

# pr -e25 <lab2.txt
.. squeezes two small columns to ONE column if -e is set to 20 or less.
With -e set to 25 *all* colums are 25 chars wide. So it's not usable for
me, "column" from util-linux is intelligent and expands a column only as
far as it is needed. :)

A nice feature of pr would be  --sep-string  but
   # pr -e25 --sep-string="|" <lab2.txt
has no effect. A bug? :(

Ekkard

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convert text mit tab stops to table ekkardgerlach <egerlach@aiai.de> - 2012-05-21 12:52 +0200
  Re: convert text with tab stops to table ekkardgerlach <egerlach@aiai.de> - 2012-05-21 12:54 +0200
  Re: convert text mit tab stops to table Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-21 14:05 +0200
  Re: convert text mit tab stops to table The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-05-21 13:14 +0100
  Re: convert text mit tab stops to table David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2012-05-21 15:03 +0200
  Re: convert text mit tab stops to table "Anonymous Remailer (austria)" <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at> - 2012-05-22 11:46 +0000
    Re: convert text mit tab stops to table ekkardgerlach <egerlach@aiai.de> - 2012-05-23 10:50 +0200
      Re: convert text mit tab stops to table Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-23 12:48 +0200
        Re: convert text mit tab stops to table ekkardgerlach <egerlach@aiai.de> - 2012-05-23 14:21 +0200

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