On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 at 09:10, Colin Watson wrote: > > Your problem is that you need this line as the very first line of the > page to instruct man(1) to run the tbl preprocessor: > > '\" t > > See https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/man-db/man.1.en.html#DEFAULTS That does the trick. Thank you! I knew there had to be a simple solution, but I didn't know man(1) could be instructed to call a preprocessor.