On Apr 3, 2023, at 2:40 PM, Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> wrote: > > tbl (which seems like it has been supported ... forever?) does the hard > work of creating tables for you. It seems like the right tool for the > job; even I could figure it out. As Anthony has pointed out mandoc > is the default man page formatter for BSD systems, now MacOS X, and > some Linux distributions. Seems to me that switching to tbl for those > things is a no-brainer unless I am missing something, which is always > possible!
I don't see a tbl command on MacOS (or freebsd, except if you installed groff (or plan9port -- ignore the troff comment!). Unless you mean replacing the current setup with the output of equivalent tbl syntax and then checking that in? I tried that. mandoc doesn't understand tbl output for the simple test i tried. /usr/local/bin/tbl <<EOF| mandoc -man .TS c c c . This is centered Well, this also .TE EOF But groff's (& plan9port's) nroff deals with this fine.
