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RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/tbl.7,v
retrieving revision 1.28
retrieving revision 1.32
diff -u -p -r1.28 -r1.32
--- mandoc/tbl.7	2017/06/28 00:59:57	1.28
+++ mandoc/tbl.7	2019/02/08 22:51:53	1.32
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-.\"	$Id: tbl.7,v 1.28 2017/06/28 00:59:57 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: tbl.7,v 1.32 2019/02/08 22:51:53 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
-.\" Copyright (c) 2014, 2015, 2017 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
 .\"
 .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
 .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 28 2017 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: February 8 2019 $
 .Dt TBL 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -147,9 +147,9 @@ The combined cell as a whole consumes only one cell
 of the corresponding data line.
 .It Cm a
 Left-justify a string and pad with one space.
-.It Cm ^
+.It Cm \(ha
 Vertically span rows from the last
-.Pf non- Cm ^
+.Pf non- Cm \(ha
 layout cell.
 It is an error to invoke a vertical span on the first layout line.
 Unlike a horizontal span, a vertical span consumes a data cell
@@ -231,13 +231,19 @@ Each data line consists of one or more data cells, del
 .Cm tab
 characters.
 .Pp
-If a data cells contains only the single character
+If a data cell contains only the two bytes
+.Ql \e\(ha ,
+the cell above spans to this row, as if the layout specification
+of this cell were
+.Cm \(ha .
+.Pp
+If a data cell contains only the single character
 .Ql _
 or
 .Ql = ,
 a single or double horizontal line is drawn across the cell,
 joining its neighbours.
-If a data cells contains only the two character sequence
+If a data cell contains only the two character sequence
 .Ql \e_
 or
 .Ql \e= ,
@@ -323,7 +329,7 @@ _
 AFL:2.39b
 Mutt:1.8.0
 Ruby:1.8.7.374
-TeX Live:2015 
+TeX Live:2015
 .TE
 .Ed
 .sp 2v
@@ -332,8 +338,8 @@ Spans and skipping width calculations:
 \&.TS
 box tab(:);
 lz  s | rt
-lt| cb| ^
-^ | rz  s.
+lt| cb| \(ha
+\(ha | rz  s.
 left:r
 l:center:
 :right
@@ -420,7 +426,9 @@ The GNU reimplementation of tbl, part of the groff pac
 in 1990 by James Clark.
 A standalone tbl implementation was written by Kristaps Dzonsons in
 2010.
-This formed the basis of the implementation that is part of the
+This formed the basis of the implementation that first appeared in
+.Ox 4.9
+as a part of the
 .Xr mandoc 1
 utility.
 .Sh AUTHORS