Re: man/tbl portability
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 use tbl(1)". While I wouldn't
consider eqn or refer or whatever all that portable to other tools, I
don't think I'd have any qualms about using tbl. It will certainly be
available with any half-decent nroff installation.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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