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9718 update mandoc to 1.14.4
   1 .\"     $Id: tbl.7,v 1.28 2017/06/28 00:59:57 schwarze Exp $
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   3 .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
   4 .\" Copyright (c) 2014, 2015, 2017 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
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  13 .\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
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  18 .Dd $Mdocdate: June 28 2017 $
  19 .Dt TBL 5
  20 .Os
  21 .Sh NAME
  22 .Nm tbl
  23 .Nd tbl language reference for mandoc
  24 .Sh DESCRIPTION
  25 The
  26 .Nm tbl
  27 language formats tables.
  28 It is used within
  29 .Xr mdoc 5
  30 and
  31 .Xr man 5
  32 pages.
  33 This manual describes the subset of the
  34 .Nm
  35 language accepted by the
  36 .Xr mandoc 1
  37 utility.
  38 .Pp


 403 .Xr eqn 5
 404 equations inside tables.
 405 .Sh SEE ALSO
 406 .Xr mandoc 1 ,
 407 .Xr man 5 ,
 408 .Xr mandoc_char 5 ,
 409 .Xr mandoc_roff 5 ,
 410 .Xr mdoc 5
 411 .Rs
 412 .%A M. E. Lesk
 413 .%T Tbl\(emA Program to Format Tables
 414 .%D June 11, 1976
 415 .Re
 416 .Sh HISTORY
 417 The tbl utility, a preprocessor for troff, was originally written by M.
 418 E. Lesk at Bell Labs in 1975.
 419 The GNU reimplementation of tbl, part of the groff package, was released
 420 in 1990 by James Clark.
 421 A standalone tbl implementation was written by Kristaps Dzonsons in
 422 2010.
 423 This formed the basis of the implementation that is part of the


 424 .Xr mandoc 1
 425 utility.
 426 .Sh AUTHORS
 427 This
 428 .Nm
 429 reference was written by
 430 .An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv
 431 and
 432 .An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org .
   1 .\"     $Id: tbl.7,v 1.29 2017/10/17 23:19:12 schwarze Exp $
   2 .\"
   3 .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
   4 .\" Copyright (c) 2014, 2015, 2017 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
   5 .\"
   6 .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
   7 .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
   8 .\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
   9 .\"
  10 .\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
  11 .\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
  12 .\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
  13 .\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
  14 .\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
  15 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
  16 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
  17 .\"
  18 .Dd $Mdocdate: October 17 2017 $
  19 .Dt TBL 5
  20 .Os
  21 .Sh NAME
  22 .Nm tbl
  23 .Nd tbl language reference for mandoc
  24 .Sh DESCRIPTION
  25 The
  26 .Nm tbl
  27 language formats tables.
  28 It is used within
  29 .Xr mdoc 5
  30 and
  31 .Xr man 5
  32 pages.
  33 This manual describes the subset of the
  34 .Nm
  35 language accepted by the
  36 .Xr mandoc 1
  37 utility.
  38 .Pp


 403 .Xr eqn 5
 404 equations inside tables.
 405 .Sh SEE ALSO
 406 .Xr mandoc 1 ,
 407 .Xr man 5 ,
 408 .Xr mandoc_char 5 ,
 409 .Xr mandoc_roff 5 ,
 410 .Xr mdoc 5
 411 .Rs
 412 .%A M. E. Lesk
 413 .%T Tbl\(emA Program to Format Tables
 414 .%D June 11, 1976
 415 .Re
 416 .Sh HISTORY
 417 The tbl utility, a preprocessor for troff, was originally written by M.
 418 E. Lesk at Bell Labs in 1975.
 419 The GNU reimplementation of tbl, part of the groff package, was released
 420 in 1990 by James Clark.
 421 A standalone tbl implementation was written by Kristaps Dzonsons in
 422 2010.
 423 This formed the basis of the implementation that first appeared in
 424 .Ox 4.9
 425 as a part of the
 426 .Xr mandoc 1
 427 utility.
 428 .Sh AUTHORS
 429 This
 430 .Nm
 431 reference was written by
 432 .An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv
 433 and
 434 .An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org .