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.\" $Id$

.\"

.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any

.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above

Line 152 For GNU compatibility, this may also be invoked with

.Cm frame .

.It Cm center

Center the table instead of left-adjusting it.

Currently ignored.

For GNU compatibility, this may also be invoked with

.Cm centre .

.It Cm decimalpoint

Line 246 Emit a double-vertical bar instead of data.

Line 245 Emit a double-vertical bar instead of data.

.Pp

Keys may be followed by a set of modifiers.

A modifier is either a modifier key or a natural number for specifying

the minimum width of a column.

the spacing to the right of the column.

The following case-insensitive modifier keys are available:

.Bl -tag -width 2n

.It Cm b

Use a bold font for the contents of this column.

.It Cm d

Move cell content down to the last cell of a vertical span.

Currently ignored.

.It Cm e

Make this column wider to match the maximum width

of any other column also having the

Line 263 See the

Line 265 See the

manual for supported one-character font names.

.It Cm i

Use an italic font for the contents of this column.

.It Cm m

Specify a cell start macro.

This is a GNU extension and currently unsupported.

.It Cm p

Set the point size to the following unsigned argument,

or change it by the following signed argument.

Currently ignored.

.It Cm v

Set the vertical line spacing to the following unsigned argument,

or change it by the following signed argument.

Currently ignored.

.It Cm t

Do not vertically center cell content in the vertical span,

leave it at the top.

Currently ignored.

.It Cm u

Move cell content up by half a table line.

Currently ignored.

.It Cm w

Specify the minimum column width.

.It Cm x

After determining the width of all other columns, distribute the

rest of the line length among all columns having the

Line 272 modifier.

Line 294 modifier.

Do not use this cell for determining the width of this column.

.El

.Pp

The modifiers

.Cm d ,

.Cm t ,

.Cm u ,

and

.Cm w

are ignored by

.Xr mandoc 1 .

.Pp

For example, the following layout specifies a center-justified column of

minimum width 10, followed by vertical bar, followed by a left-justified

column of minimum width 10, another vertical bar, then a column using

bold font justified about the decimal point in numbers:

.Pp

.Dl c10 | l10 | nfB

.Dl cw10 | lw10 | nfB

.Ss Data

The data section follows the last layout row.

By default, cells in a data section are delimited by a tab.

Line 314 It may then be followed by a tab

Line 327 It may then be followed by a tab

.Pq or as designated by Cm tab

or an end-of-line to terminate the row.

.Sh COMPATIBILITY

This section documents compatibility between mandoc and other

.Nm

implementations, at this time limited to GNU tbl.

.Pp

.Bl -dash -compact

.It

In GNU tbl, comments and macros are disallowed prior to the data block

of a table.

The

.Xr mandoc 1

implementation allows them.

implementation of

.El

.Nm

doesn't support

.Xr mdoc 7

and

.Xr man 7

macros and

.Xr eqn 7

equations inside tables.

.Sh SEE ALSO

.Xr mandoc 1 ,

.Xr man 7 ,

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