From c262512cda526a647bc53812a01794100b385be9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Schwarze Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 21:17:34 +0000 Subject: Let cells containing nothing but \^ extend the cell above. Missing feature reported by Pali dot Rohar at gmail dot com. --- tbl.7 | 22 ++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'tbl.7') diff --git a/tbl.7 b/tbl.7 index 3883b409..6c1df147 100644 --- 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 -.\" Copyright (c) 2014, 2015, 2017 Ingo Schwarze +.\" Copyright (c) 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 Ingo Schwarze .\" .\" 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 -- cgit v1.2.3