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doc: pr: give solution to expanding TABs in multicolumn output

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* doc/coreutils.texi (pr invocation): Explicitly state that
multicolumn output will convert spaces to TABs, and show that
this can be undone with the `pr -t -e` or `expand` commands.
Suggested by Douglas McIlroy in https://bugs.gnu.org/69807
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Pádraig Brady
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@@ -2636,9 +2636,11 @@ This option might well cause some lines to be truncated. The number of
lines in the columns on each page are balanced. The options @option{-e}
and @option{-i} are on for multiple text-column output. Together with
@option{-J} option column alignment and line truncation is turned off.
Since spaces are converted to TABs in multicolumn output, they can be converted
back by further processing through @command{pr -t -e} or @command{expand}.
Lines of full length are joined in a free field format and @option{-S}
option may set field separators. @option{-@var{column}} may not be used
with @option{-m} option.
with the @option{-m} option.
@item -a
@itemx --across