Hi Markus,
Em Fri, 15 Jul 2016 19:39:34 +0200
Markus Heiser <[email protected]> escreveu:
> >>> $ man ./foo
> >>>
> >>> ┌─────┬────────┐
> >>> │0000 │ foobar │
> >>> ├─────┼────────┤
> >>> │1111 │ │
> >>> │2222 │ │
> >>> ├─────┤ │
> >>> │ r │ foo │
> >>> ├─────┼────────┤
> >>> │3333 │ │
> >>> │4444 │ bar │
> >>> └─────┴────────┘
> >>>
> >>> Yet, I'm not sure how portable is to use such preprocessor.
> >>
> >> About portability, the tbl man page says:
> >>
> >> The output generated by GNU tbl cannot
> >> be processed with Unix troff; it must be
> >> processed with GNU troff.
> >
> > Yes, I know, but I suspect that the original Unix troff has
> > long gone on Linux distributions.
>
> unanimous .. this is what I wanted to express ;-)
Btw, just found one man page using tables on my system: memset(3).
man-pages-4.06-2.fc24.noarch
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/memset.3.html
That's the table on it:
┌──────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
│Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├──────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
│memset() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
└──────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
.TS
allbox;
lb lb lb
l l l.
Interface Attribute Value
T{
.BR memset ()
T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.TE
Other manpages for functions at string.h also use tables:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/strcpy.3.html
So, it seems OK to use tables on our manpages too.
--
Thanks,
Mauro
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