Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X

[George Michaelson]

On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 3:43 PM Anthony J. Bentley <anthony@anjbe.name> wrote:

Ken Hornstein writes:
> - Switch to tbl(1) macros which as far as I can tell are supported by
>   mandoc and seem to work everywhere.

tbl is supported by mandoc, yes. In my opinion, this is the best option.
Well, converting to mdoc macros would be nicer, but also much more work,
and who would do it?

> (I do not know when tbl(1) was created, but it wouldn't surprise me
> if MH predated it).

According to the mandoc manuals:

HISTORY
  The tbl utility, a preprocessor for troff, was originally written by
  M. E. Lesk at Bell Labs in 1975.