In one of the examples, the tbl(7) source code displayed

contains a backslash that needs to be escaped, and the
missing escaping resulted in very misleading formatting.

Documentation bug found due to a question from
Ted Bullock <tbullock at comlore dot com>.

diff --git a/share/man/man7/tbl.7 b/share/man/man7/tbl.7
index 11202e9..fe9fe4d 100644 (file)
--- a/share/man/man7/tbl.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/tbl.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $OpenBSD: tbl.7,v 1.25 2021/09/07 11:47:42 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: tbl.7,v 1.26 2022/01/12 04:14:20 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2014,2015,2017,2018,2019 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: September 7 2021 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 12 2022 $
 .Dt TBL 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ allbox tab(:);
 le le||7 lw10.
 The fourth line:_:line 1
 of this column:=:line 2
-determines:\_:line 3
+determines:\e_:line 3
 the column width.:T{
 This text is too wide to fit into a column of width 17.
 T}:line 4