> ... I have just found a printout of the groff > 'tbl' man page in an old ring-binder. The footer states: > > Groff Version 1.10 26 June 1995 > > This is the old very terse (à la James Clarke) man-page, in which > "Only the differences between GNU tbl and Unix tbl are described > here". The relevant line is > > "There is a d format modifier which means that a vertically > spanning entry should be aligned at the bottom of its range." > > Nothing more. And there is nothing whatever on the subject of "_". > I have found groff-1.06 dated 1 Sept 1992 --- exactly the same
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