Ken, > I will admit that my roff-fu is not very good, but I took a look at this. > It seems this is a common idiom for nmh man pages. Specifically (this > is from packf(1) but it's similar everywhere else):
any roff-fu i had expired at my last birthday. i've recently switched to use asciidoc, which seems to support tables ---- https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/tables/build-a-basic-table/ ---- i convert to man using a configuration file (asciidoc.conf) from Eli Schwartz: ---- https://github.com/eli-schwartz/aurpublish/blob/master/doc/asciidoc.conf ---- my makefile rule: ---- ./%: %.asciidoc asciidoc.conf ${A2X} --no-xmllint --asciidoc-opts="-f asciidoc.conf" -d manpage -f manpage $< ---- (i'm sure all this could be improved.) converting to asciidoc been liberating, though i'm sure, like any of these "lightweight markup languages", defeats attempts at fine-tuning (which, itself, can be very liberating :). cheers, Greg
