tldr/pages/common/tbl.md

tbl

Table preprocessor for the groff (GNU Troff) document formatting system. See also groff and 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}}