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Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X
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Steffen Nurpmeso |
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Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Apr 2023 01:32:19 +0200 |
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George Michaelson wrote in
<CAM2GGymR6=-Xo21Vvd=4T3Q7BYP_xqj=V=1qmFA12fYNfj+kEQ@mail.gmail.com>:
|Not to prolong the agony, I tried the example on OSX for man tbl:
|
| .TS
| tab(@);
| ccc.
| This@is@centered
| Well,@this@also
| .TE
|
|It didn't work with the nroff -man they supply. It did work with mandoc
It surely works with "tbl FILE|nroff|more" if there is tbl and
nroff. Or solely "groff -tTascii FILE|more".
|So my summary of understanding so far:
Yes i think so. Note that in
Hello world.$
$
This^Iis^Icentered$
.sp 0$
This^Iis^Icentered$
$
Well,^Ithis^Ialso$
$
Hey.$
This not$
mandoc deviates from groff unless .ta is used as in
Hello world.$
$
.ta 4 8$
This^Iis^Icentered$
.sp 0$
This^Iis^Icentered$
$
Well,^Ithis^Ialso$
$
Hey.$
This not$
Ie better set tabs explicitly. Now. I am not an expert, and my
mandoc is very old, things might have changed.
$ ll $(command -v mandoc)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 steffen steffen 1176552 Apr 13 2019 /usr/local/bin/mandoc*
--steffen
|
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- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, (continued)
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Anthony J. Bentley, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Ken Hornstein, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, doug dougwellington . com, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Ken Hornstein, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Michael Richardson, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Ken Hornstein, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, George Michaelson, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Ken Hornstein, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, George Michaelson, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X,
Steffen Nurpmeso <=
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, George Michaelson, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Anthony J. Bentley, 2023/04/04
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2023/04/04
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Ralph Corderoy, 2023/04/04
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Paul Fox, 2023/04/04
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Ralph Corderoy, 2023/04/04
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Oliver Kiddle, 2023/04/04
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Anthony J. Bentley, 2023/04/04
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Ralph Corderoy, 2023/04/04
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Robert Elz, 2023/04/03