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Re: man/tbl portability



On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 02:33:08PM +0200, Mikael Hedin wrote:
> Oh, I tried not using tbl, but could not find anything else to produce
> something sensible.  If there is an alternative, please educate me.

In the cases where you find yourself wanting to use tbl because doing it
in plain nroff is too much work, it's usually the best option. If you're
talking about the table of actions from ogle 0.8.5-2, it looks fine to
me, except perhaps for being a little wide (it overflows an 80-column
terminal).

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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