Hi Markus, Em Fri, 15 Jul 2016 19:39:34 +0200 Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@xxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > >>> $ man ./foo > >>> > >>> ┌─────┬────────┐ > >>> │0000 │ foobar │ > >>> ├─────┼────────┤ > >>> │1111 │ │ > >>> │2222 │ │ > >>> ├─────┤ │ > >>> │ r │ foo │ > >>> ├─────┼────────┤ > >>> │3333 │ │ > >>> │4444 │ bar │ > >>> └─────┴────────┘ > >>> > >>> Yet, I'm not sure how portable is to use such preprocessor. > >> > >> About portability, the tbl man page says: > >> > >> The output generated by GNU tbl cannot > >> be processed with Unix troff; it must be > >> processed with GNU troff. > > > > Yes, I know, but I suspect that the original Unix troff has > > long gone on Linux distributions. > > unanimous .. this is what I wanted to express ;-) Btw, just found one man page using tables on my system: memset(3). man-pages-4.06-2.fc24.noarch http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/memset.3.html That's the table on it: ┌──────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐ │Interface │ Attribute │ Value │ ├──────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤ │memset() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │ └──────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘ .TS allbox; lb lb lb l l l. Interface Attribute Value T{ .BR memset () T} Thread safety MT-Safe .TE Other manpages for functions at string.h also use tables: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/strcpy.3.html So, it seems OK to use tables on our manpages too. -- Thanks, Mauro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
