Re: [Groff] .mso for groff_hdtbl(7)

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> In my man-page is everything ok, as soon as I use the .mso line,
>> even groffer in tty mode.
>> 
>> Using `groff -man -mhdtbl ...' leads to errors, even without any
>> output.  2 `-m' parameters seem to be illegal.

Well, in this very case Bernd is right: You *must* write

  .TH
  .mso hdtbl.tmac

since `-man -mhdtbl' doesn't work, causing a loop.  Given that .TH is
used only once at the very beginning of the document, the re-use of
.TH as a hdtbl macro works just fine.

On the other hand, this only gets important if someone is going to add
proper TTY support to hdtbl.  IMHO, man pages which don't deliver good
TTY results are useless in most cases.

> If, for instance, you were to write
> 
>   groff -tpe -mm -ms -me -Tps
> 
> then the Universe would fall apart!

As does

  groff -man -hdtbl

:-)


    Werner