Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X

[Ken Hornstein]

>Not to prolong the agony, I tried the example on OSX for man tbl:
>
>              .TS
>              tab(@);
>              ccc.
>              This@is@centered
>              Well,@this@also
>              .TE
>
>It didn't work with the nroff -man they supply. It did work with mandoc

Silly question: what version of MacOS X do you have?  On my Ventura
install I get:

% which nroff
nroff: Command not found.

(I did find a Monterey install and it does have an nroff on it)

I think as long as whatever "man" ends up invoking on a particlar system
supports tbl(1) macros we are fine.  And I believe that is true!  Even
on the aforementioned Monterey system if I put those contents in "foo.1"
and run "man ./foo.1" then the right thing happens.

--Ken