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@@ -1336,13 +1336,30 @@ The invalid character is discarded. A table layout specification contains an opening parenthesis, but no matching closing parenthesis. The rest of the input line, starting from the parenthesis, has no effect. -.El -.Pp -.Bl -inset -compact -.It Sy "no table data cells specified" -.It Sy "ignore data in cell" -.It Sy "data block still open" -.It Sy "ignoring extra data cells" +.It Sy "tbl without any data cells" +.Pq tbl +A table does not contain any data cells. +It will probably produce no output. +.It Sy "ignoring data in spanned tbl cell" +.Pq tbl +A table cell is marked as a horizontal span +.Pq Sq Cm s +or vertical span +.Pq Sq Cm ^ +in the table layout, but it contains data. +The data is ignored. +.It Sy "ignoring extra tbl data cells" +.Pq tbl +A data line contains more cells than the corresponding layout line. +The data in the extra cells is ignored. +.It Sy "data block open at end of tbl" +.Pq tbl +A data block is opened with +.Cm T{ , +but never closed with a matching +.Cm T} . +The remaining data lines of the table are all put into one cell, +and any remaining cells stay empty. .El .Ss "Errors related to roff, mdoc, and man code" .Bl -ohang @@ -1640,17 +1657,25 @@ request supported by GNU troff or Heirloom troff but not by .Nm , and it is likely that this will cause information loss or considerable misformatting. -.It Sy "unsupported table layout modfier" +.It Sy "eqn delim option in tbl" +.Pq eqn , tbl +The options line of a table defines equation delimiters. +Any equation source code contained in the table will be printed unformatted. +.It Sy "unsupported table layout modifier" .Pq tbl A table layout specification contains an .Sq Cm m modifier. The modifier is discarded. .It Sy "ignoring macro in table" -.It Sy "eqn in tbl" -.Pq eqn , tbl -The options line of a table defines equation delimiters. -Any equation source code contained in the table will be printed unformatted. +.Pq tbl , mdoc , man +A table contains an invocation of an +.Xr mdoc 7 +or +.Xr man 7 +macro or of an undefined macro. +The macro is ignored, and its arguments are handled +as if they were a text line. .El .Sh COMPATIBILITY This section summarises |