Re: man/tbl portability
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.
Debian's man-db scans not only for preprocessor hints [1], but also for
.TS/.TE in the body of the page. For portability, use the hint too.
[1] '\" t
as the first line of the page
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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