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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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