Re: man pages and tbl

2007-01-15 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Is there any reason why you don't pipe man pages through tbl? To be more precise, why don't you use the `man' program which normally can handle this automatically (this is, recognizing the necessary preprocessors based on the first line

Re: man pages and tbl

2007-01-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Some time ago I was investigating the internal viewer code which deals with man pages. I asked myself the same question and if I remember correctly I found that invoking tbl is not necessary since most processors already invoke it or something As far as I know, `nroff' (which is used in

man pages and tbl

2007-01-14 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Is there any reason why you don't pipe man pages through tbl? To be more precise, why don't you use the `man' program which normally can handle this automatically (this is, recognizing the necessary preprocessors based on the first line of the man page)? If you don't like `man', I suggest