From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: integrate tbl into mandoc
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:38:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101018173818.GA5210@britannica.bec.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CBC73B7.5060104@bsd.lv>
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 06:20:07PM +0200, Kristaps Dzonsons wrote:
> I'll respond over the next few days, but I warn you that I
> absolutely don't intend to merge tbl into mandoc. I don't want the
> code volume increased so much for a corner case. Tables are already
> supported by `Bl -column'; pulling this extra code into the parser
> for all manuals in the general case is wasteful.
I somewhat disagree on this. The code of .Bl -column is complicated and
lacking in some important areas. Same can be said about tbl. Properly
integrating both into a shared table engine can even result in major
improvements for .Bl -column. Consider the ability to have proper
multi-line fields.
Joerg
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-13 0:46 Ingo Schwarze
2010-10-14 21:18 ` Ingo Schwarze
2010-10-14 21:55 ` Ingo Schwarze
2010-10-14 22:19 ` Ingo Schwarze
2010-10-14 23:02 ` Ingo Schwarze
2010-10-18 16:20 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-10-18 17:38 ` Joerg Sonnenberger [this message]
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