Vertically spanned tables in JadeTex?

Subject: Vertically spanned tables in JadeTex?
From: "John W. Shipman" <john@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:59:12 -0600 (MDT)
I'm trying to use vertically spanned cells in a table with Jade
1.2 and JadeTex (1998.9.26).  The HTML output looks as I expect
it to look, but the TeX output messes up wherever there is
vertical spanning (using <entry morerows=N>).  The SGML source is
included below.  Should this work?

There are two problems:

* For all rows whose first element should be occupied by a span
  from a previous row, the cell contents are shifted to the left
  as if the span were not there.

* There is a heavy vertical rule between the first two cells of
  the first row and a lighter vertical rule between the first
  two cells of the second row.  Since there is a span covering
  the first two cells of both the first two rows, there should
  be no vertical rules at all there.

John Shipman (john@xxxxxxx), Applications Specialist, NM Tech Computer Center,
Speare 128, Socorro, NM 87801, (505) 835-5950, http://www.nmt.edu/~john
  ``Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.''  --Dave Farber

--- SGML for table below ---
      <table>
        <title>Rising and setting of Venus, 1994</title>
        <tgroup cols="6" align="right">
          <colspec align="left" colname="month">
          <colspec colname="day">
          <colspec colname="rise-20">
          <colspec colname="set-20">
          <colspec colname="rise-30">
          <colspec colname="set-30">
          <thead>
            <row>
              <entry namest="month" nameend="day" morerows="1"></entry>
              <entry namest="rise-20" nameend="set-20" align="center"
              >20&deg; N. Lat.</entry>
              <entry namest="rise-30" nameend="set-30" align="center"
              >30&deg; N. Lat.</entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry>Rise</entry>
              <entry>Set</entry>
              <entry>Rise</entry>
              <entry>Set</entry>
            </row>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <row>
              <entry morerows="3" valign="top">Jan.</entry>
              <entry>1</entry>
              <entry>6:21</entry>
              <entry>17:14</entry>
              <entry>6:43</entry>
              <entry>16:52</entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="day">11</entry>
              <entry>6:35</entry>
              <entry>17:31</entry>
              <entry>6:56</entry>
              <entry>17:10</entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="day">21</entry>
              <entry>6:46</entry>
              <entry>17:48</entry>
              <entry>7:04</entry>
              <entry>17:30</entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="day">31</entry>
              <entry>6:53</entry>
              <entry>18:05</entry>
              <entry>7:08</entry>
              <entry>17:50</entry>
            </row>
          </tbody>
        </tgroup>
      </table>


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