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From: npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: tbl bug on next?
Summary: a table is anything beginning .TS
Message-ID: <1991May3.133000.1090@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 3 May 91 13:30:00 GMT
References: <1991May2.220958.17385@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Correspondent says there's a tbl bug because man got
confused by a .TS at the start of a line.  man filters
through tbl and eqn, because some man pages need these.
Anything with .TS or .EQ at the start of a line is
significant. If these were intended as plain text they
should have been preceded by .li, or a blank or tab,
or the control character should have been changed.
tbl is evidently complaining the line after .TS doesn't
look like a table specification. Error is by the person
who wrote the man page.