Hello Joachim!
Good to hear from you again. >> .TBL cols=3 >> .TR ".TD 1*2 .TD 2+3*2 colspan=2" >> .ETB > > hdtbl behaves right in both of your examples. The hdtbl-manpage > says: > > If a macro has one or more arguments, and it is not starting a > line, it must be enclosed in double quotes. > > So you must write the second line of the first example > > .TR .TD 1*2 ".TD 2+3*2 colspan=2" > > to get the expected result. Ah, thanks. This is not immediately obvious IMHO and needs a better example in the man page then. Since I'm revising Bernd's recent additions, I'll improve that also. Werner