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-.Dd $Mdocdate: February 5 2017 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: February 16 2017 $
.Dt MDOC 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
A columnated list.
The
.Fl width
-argument has no effect; instead, each argument specifies the width
-of one column, using either the scaling width syntax described in
-.Xr roff 7
-or the string length of the argument.
+argument has no effect; instead, the string length of each argument
+specifies the width of one column.
If the first line of the body of a
.Fl column
list is not an