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diff --git a/src/preproc/tbl/tbl.man b/src/preproc/tbl/tbl.man index 50e6b1ed..cd4b6e70 100644 --- a/src/preproc/tbl/tbl.man +++ b/src/preproc/tbl/tbl.man @@ -814,6 +814,48 @@ this: .EE . . +.LP +A leading and/or trailing `|' in a format line, such as +. +.IP +.EX +|l r|. +.EE +. +.LP +gives output which has a 1n\~space between the resulting +bordering vertical rule and the content of the adjacent column, +as in +. +.IP +.EX +\&.TS +\&tab(#); +\&|l r|. +\&left column#right column +\&.TE +.EE +. +.LP +If it is desired to have zero space (so that the rule touches +the content), this can be achieved by introducing extra \[lq]dummy\[rq] +columns, with no content and zero separation, before and/or after, +as in +. +.IP +.EX +\&.TS +\&tab(#); +\&r0|l r0|l. +\&#left column#right column# +\&.TE +.EE +. +.LP +The resulting \[lq]dummy\[rq] columns are invisible and have zero width; +note that such columns usually don't work with TTY devices. +. +. .SH REFERENCE Lesk, M.E.: "TBL \[en] A Program to Format Tables". For copyright reasons it cannot be included in the groff distribution, |