Re: man/tbl portability

[Daniel Kobras <kobras@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

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 preprocessing does not happen.  Did I
> miss some magic to insert?  Or does this just not work on other
> Unices?  (The man page is in the ogle packge >= 0.8.5-2).

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.

Regards,

Daniel.