On Mon, Oct 03, 2022 at 10:36:32PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> The problem is therefore that man(1) is running the preprocessors in the
> wrong order.  This can be solved by pipelining eqn(1) before tbl(1), or
> passing the "-e" and "-t" flags to groff and letting it sort them out.

This is because the preprocessor line at the top of the page is:

  '\" et

man(1) deals with these in the order given.

Should I have man(1) rearrange things into a canonical order?  If so, I
guess I should rearrange everything rather than just tbl(1) and eqn(1),
to match what groff(1) does?

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwat...@debian.org]

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