man/tbl portability

2002-08-19 Thread Mikael Hedin
Hi, I've enhanced oglerc(5) by adding a tbl section (.TS and .TE and the things in between). On my system (sid) it is preproccessed by tbl(1) when I run 'man ./oglerc.5', but on the upstream author's sytem (solaris something), the tbl preprocessing does not happen. Did I miss some magic to

Re: man/tbl portability

2002-08-19 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 01:25:26PM +0200, Mikael Hedin wrote: I've enhanced oglerc(5) by adding a tbl section (.TS and .TE and the things in between). On my system (sid) it is preproccessed by tbl(1) when I run 'man ./oglerc.5', but on the upstream author's sytem (solaris something), the tbl

Re: man/tbl portability

2002-08-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 01:25:26PM +0200, Mikael Hedin wrote: I've enhanced oglerc(5) by adding a tbl section (.TS and .TE and the things in between). On my system (sid) it is preproccessed by tbl(1) when I run 'man ./oglerc.5', but on the upstream author's sytem (solaris something), the tbl

Re: man/tbl portability

2002-08-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 01:43:01PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote: See the NOTES section in man(7). You need '\ t' at the beginning of the man page. But also have a look at section SAFE SUBSET, which suggests to not use those macros in the first place. It does say if you must, go ahead and use

Re: man/tbl portability

2002-08-19 Thread Mikael Hedin
Turned out to be apostrophe, backslash, dubblequote, space, t. Fun and insane! Tanks, Micce -- Mikael Hedin, MSc +46 (0)8 344979 (home) +46 (0)70 5891533 (mobile) [gpg key fingerprint = 387F A8DB DC2A 50E3 FE26 30C4 5793 29D3 C01B 2A22]

Re: man/tbl portability

2002-08-19 Thread Mikael Hedin
Oh, I tried not using tbl, but could not find anything else to produce something sensible. If there is an alternative, please educate me. /Micce -- Mikael Hedin, MSc +46 (0)8 344979 (home) +46 (0)70 5891533 (mobile) [gpg key fingerprint = 387F A8DB DC2A 50E3 FE26 30C4 5793 29D3 C01B 2A22]

Re: man/tbl portability

2002-08-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 02:33:08PM +0200, Mikael Hedin wrote: Oh, I tried not using tbl, but could not find anything else to produce something sensible. If there is an alternative, please educate me. In the cases where you find yourself wanting to use tbl because doing it in plain nroff is too