man pages and tbl

[Werner LEMBERG <wl gnu org>]

Is there any reason why you don't pipe man pages through tbl?  To be
more precise, why don't you use the `man' program which normally can
handle this automatically (this is, recognizing the necessary
preprocessors based on the first line of the man page)?

If you don't like `man', I suggest that you use something like

  tbl | nroff ...

in `mc.ext.in' (where `tbl' should be `gtbl' on platforms where you
have `gtroff' instead of `troff').  Always calling tbl should never
cause problems.


    Werner