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1 files changed, 32 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/usr/src/man/man5/tbl.5 b/usr/src/man/man5/tbl.5 index 6105a6898b..21cb9ddcdd 100644 --- a/usr/src/man/man5/tbl.5 +++ b/usr/src/man/man5/tbl.5 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -.\" $Id: tbl.7,v 1.29 2017/10/17 23:19:12 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: tbl.7,v 1.34 2019/03/02 21:03:02 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> -.\" Copyright (c) 2014, 2015, 2017 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> +.\" Copyright (c) 2014,2015,2017,2018,2019 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: October 17 2017 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: March 2 2019 $ .Dt TBL 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -147,9 +147,9 @@ The combined cell as a whole consumes only one cell of the corresponding data line. .It Cm a Left-justify a string and pad with one space. -.It Cm ^ +.It Cm \(ha Vertically span rows from the last -.Pf non- Cm ^ +.Pf non- Cm \(ha layout cell. It is an error to invoke a vertical span on the first layout line. Unlike a horizontal span, a vertical span consumes a data cell @@ -231,13 +231,19 @@ Each data line consists of one or more data cells, delimited by .Cm tab characters. .Pp -If a data cells contains only the single character +If a data cell contains only the two bytes +.Ql \e\(ha , +the cell above spans to this row, as if the layout specification +of this cell were +.Cm \(ha . +.Pp +If a data cell contains only the single character .Ql _ or .Ql = , a single or double horizontal line is drawn across the cell, joining its neighbours. -If a data cells contains only the two character sequence +If a data cell contains only the two character sequence .Ql \e_ or .Ql \e= , @@ -323,7 +329,7 @@ _ AFL:2.39b Mutt:1.8.0 Ruby:1.8.7.374 -TeX Live:2015 +TeX Live:2015 .TE .Ed .sp 2v @@ -332,8 +338,8 @@ Spans and skipping width calculations: \&.TS box tab(:); lz s | rt -lt| cb| ^ -^ | rz s. +lt| cb| \(ha +\(ha | rz s. left:r l:center: :right @@ -388,8 +394,8 @@ T}::line 5 These examples were constructed to demonstrate many .Nm features in a compact way. -In real manual pages, keep tables as simple as possible: -Like that, they usually look better, are less fragile, and more portable. +In real manual pages, keep tables as simple as possible. +They usually look better, are less fragile, and are more portable. .Sh COMPATIBILITY The .Xr mandoc 1 @@ -432,3 +438,17 @@ reference was written by .An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv and .An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org . +.Sh BUGS +In +.Fl T +.Cm utf8 +output mode, heavy lines are drawn instead of double lines. +This cannot be improved because the Unicode standard only provides +an incomplete set of box drawing characters with double lines, +whereas it provides a full set of box drawing characters +with heavy lines. +It is unlikely this can be improved in the future because the box +drawing characters are already marked in Unicode as characters +intended only for backward compatibility with legacy systems, +and their use is not encouraged. +So it seems unlikely that the missing ones might get added in the future. |