Re: tables on pgbench man page look garbled

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: tables on pgbench man page look garbled
Date: 2023-05-10 20:08:34
Message-ID: 68F02709-4027-4BF4-8666-ECDAE94655AB@yesql.se
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> On 10 May 2023, at 17:35, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> writes:
>> I took a look at this using macOS as the initial testbed; the TLDR is that
>> mandoc doesn't support macros in tables, and our single-column function
>> signature tables rely on that. macOS switched to mandoc in v11 I think, but I
>> don't have an older box handy to doublecheck.
>
> Hmm, any chance of addressing this by expanding out the relevant macros?

Maybe, but I'm not too optimistic about that since I was unable to coerce
mandoc into accepting any form of explicit linebreaks in T{T} text blocks.

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Daniel Gustafsson

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