Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 20:38:47 -0600 (MDT) From: Kazuo Horikawa <horikawa@jp.FreeBSD.org> To: imp@village.org Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG, ru@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tbl support in man Message-ID: <20020502.203847.07646845.horikawa@attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <20020502.163459.70459594.imp@village.org> References: <20020502.163459.70459594.imp@village.org>
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Warner,
"M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> wrote:
> [[ please CC me, since I don't subscribe to doc@ ]]
>
> Here's a quick patch to the build system to help us use the tbl
> functionality that is already present in man. If a man page ends in
> tbl, then man will run it through tbl first.
Existing /usr/bin/man invokes tbl before it calls groff. I think that
wi.4 need not be renamed and that bsd.man.mk need not be modified.
Putting your new wi.4 as /usr/local/man/man4/foo.4 and invoking "man
foo", I could see formatted table as follows:
Card Chip Bus
----------------------------------------------------------
3Com AirConnect 3CRWE737A Spectrum24 PCMCIA
3Com AirConnect 3CRWE777A Prism-II PCI
[snip]
--
Kazuo Horikawa
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