Cleanup, no functional change:

[mandoc.git] / tbl.7

diff --git a/tbl.7 b/tbl.7
index 3883b40904ee27366d948d1fde7d21ef5108a710..6c1df147276ae75e344f287af2e2440c941e188c 100644 (file)
--- a/tbl.7
+++ b/tbl.7
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-.\"    $Id: tbl.7,v 1.29 2017/10/17 23:19:12 schwarze Exp $
+.\"    $Id: tbl.7,v 1.30 2018/11/25 21:17:34 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: October 17 2017 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 25 2018 $
 .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
@@ -231,7 +231,13 @@ Each data line consists of one or more data cells, delimited by
 .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 = ,
@@ -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