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tbl — Table preprocessor for the groff (GNU Troff) document formatting system. See also: `groff`, `troff`.

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Problem

How to use the tbl command: Table preprocessor for the groff (GNU Troff) document formatting system. See also: groff, troff. More information: <https://manned.org/tbl>.

Solution

tbl — Table preprocessor for the groff (GNU Troff) document formatting system. See also: groff, troff. More information: <https://manned.org/tbl>.

Process input with tables, saving the output for future typesetting with groff to PostScript:

tbl {{path/to/input_file}} > {{path/to/output.roff}}

Typeset input with tables to PDF using the [me] macro package:

tbl -T {{pdf}} {{path/to/input.tbl}} | groff -{{me}} -T {{pdf}} > {{path/to/output.pdf}}

Code Snippets

Process input with tables, saving the output for future typesetting with groff to PostScript

tbl {{path/to/input_file}} > {{path/to/output.roff}}

Typeset input with tables to PDF using the [me] macro package

tbl -T {{pdf}} {{path/to/input.tbl}} | groff -{{me}} -T {{pdf}} > {{path/to/output.pdf}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/tbl

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