>I don't see a tbl command on MacOS (or freebsd, except if you >installed groff (or plan9port -- ignore the troff comment!).
At least on MacOS X, 'man tbl' actually works (but there is not a separate tbl command, true). The man page says: The tbl language formats tables. It is used within mdoc(7) and man(7) pages. This manual describes the subset of the tbl language accepted by the mandoc(1) utility. >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 It looks like to me that tbl format is handled directly by mandoc. E.g., this works: mandoc -man <<EOF .TS [...] .TE EOF --Ken