Tiny bits in place for tbl horizontal spans. This will wait for the next

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--- a/roff.7
+++ b/roff.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $Id: roff.7,v 1.18 2010/12/29 10:19:55 kristaps Exp $
+.\"    $Id: roff.7,v 1.23 2011/01/04 23:32:21 kristaps Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -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: December 29 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 4 2011 $
 .Dt ROFF 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -535,52 +535,20 @@ This request is intended to have one argument,
 consisting of an even number of characters.
 Currently, it is ignored including its arguments,
 and the number of arguments is not checked.
-.\" .Ss \&TE
-.\" End a table context.
-.\" See
-.\" .Sx \&TS .
-.\" .Ss \&TS
-.\" Begin a table, which formats input in aligned rows and columns.
-.\" A table consists of an optional single line of table options terminated
-.\" by a semicolon, followed by one or more lines of layout specification
-.\" terminated by a period, then table data.
-.\" A table block may also include
-.\" .Nm ,
-.\" .Xr mdoc 7 ,
-.\" or
-.\" .Xr man 7
-.\" macros.
-.\" .Pp
-.\" Table data is
-.\" .Em pre-processed ,
-.\" that is, data rows are parsed then inserted into the underlying stream
-.\" of input data.
-.\" This allows data rows to be interspersed by arbitrary macros, such as
-.\" .Bd -literal -offset indent
-.\" \&.TS
-.\" c c c.
-.\" 1 2 3
-.\" \&.Ao
-.\" 3 2 1
-.\" \&.Ac
-.\" \&.TE
-.\" .Ed
-.\" .Pp
-.\" in the case of
-.\" .Xr mdoc 7
-.\" or
-.\" .Bd -literal -offset indent
-.\" \&.TS
-.\" c c c.
-.\" \&.ds ab 2
-.\" 1 \e*(ab 3
-.\" \&.I
-.\" 3 2 1
-.\" \&.TE
-.\" .Ed
-.\" .Pp
-.\" in the case of
-.\" .Xr man 7 .
+.Ss \&T&
+Re-start a table layout, retaining the options of the prior table
+invocation.
+See
+.Sx \&TS .
+.Ss \&TE
+End a table context.
+See
+.Sx \&TS .
+.Ss \&TS
+Begin a table, which formats input in aligned rows and columns.
+See
+.Xr tbl 7
+for a description of the tbl language.
 .Sh COMPATIBILITY
 This section documents compatibility between mandoc and other other
 .Nm
@@ -611,7 +579,8 @@ using the next-line syntax.
 .Xr mandoc 1 ,
 .Xr man 7 ,
 .Xr mandoc_char 7 ,
-.Xr mdoc 7
+.Xr mdoc 7 ,
+.Xr tbl 7
 .Rs
 .%A Joseph F. Ossanna
 .%A Brian W. Kernighan