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From: npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Is there a tbl checker?
Summary: checkdoc does what you need, DWB 3.1
Keywords: tbl troff
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.161639.15178@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 31 Jan 91 16:16:39 GMT
References: <1393@rust.zso.dec.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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The new checkdoc command in DWB 3.1 supersedes (yes, that's
how it's spelled) eqncheck. It checks for proper usage
of: mm macros, tbl, pic, eqn, grap.  It is neither foolproof
nor perfect, but it does a nice job of warning you about a
variety of common errors, and in a much more polite way
than the language processors do. Here's a sample snarfed
off my screen:
$ cat bad.mm
.TL
Title
.MT 0
First line.
.TS
center, allbox
c c c
1 2 3
.TE
.SG
$ checkdoc bad.mm
checkdoc version 1.0 diagnostics:
bad.mm:
Line 3: Missing a .AU before the .MT macro
Line 7: format lines must have same number of columns
Line 8: format lines must have same number of columns
Line 9: Missing table format data detected
Line 10: Missing a .AU before the .SG macro
10 lines done
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Best of all, checkdoc has no options!