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 to

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 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 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 us

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 t

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 t

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 inser