This patch modifies crontab.5 in order to give useful
information about:
- using eval command, which makes easier to express 
  environment assignments inside commands to call with
  cron.
- using leading zeroes instead of spaces to line up 
  columns

Index: cron/crontab.5
===================================================================
--- cron.orig/crontab.5
+++ cron/crontab.5
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ tilde(~) expansion, thus lines like
 .PP
 .in +4n
 .nf
-PATH = $HOME/bin:$PATH
-PATH = ~/bin:/usr/bin
+PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
+PATH=~/bin:/usr/bin
 .fi
 .in
 .PP
@@ -80,7 +80,10 @@ C=$A $B
 .in
 .PP
 There will not be any substitution for the defined variables in the
-last value.
+last value. However, with most shells you can also try e.g.,:
+.PP
+     P=PATH=/a/b/c:$PATH
+     33 22 1 2 3 eval $P && some commands
 .PP
 Several environment variables are set up automatically by the
 .IR cron (8)
@@ -290,6 +293,17 @@ Note that all the system-wide tasks will
 the case of systems that are not powered on during that period of time, only
 the hourly tasks will be executed unless the defaults above are changed.
 
+.SH YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE
+
+In that example one can see that numbers can be prepended some 0, in order
+to line up columns.
+
+.nf
+17  * * * *  root  cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
+25 16 * * *  root  test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
+47 06 * * 7  root  test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )
+52 06 1 * *  root  test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )
+.fi
 
 .SH SEE ALSO
 cron(8), crontab(1)
@@ -367,6 +381,17 @@ the following wrapper code:
 0 4 * * Sat   [ "$(date +\e%e)" = "$(LANG=C ncal | sed \-n 's/^Sa .* \e([0\-9]\e+\e) *$/\e1/p')" ] && echo "Last Saturday" && program_to_run
 .fi
 
+.SH USING EVAL TO WRAP MISC ENVIRONMENT SETTINGS
+The following tip is kindly provided by 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson:
+.PP
+     CONTENT_TYPE="text/plain; charset=UTF-8"
+     d=eval LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8 w3m -dump
+     26 22 16 1-12 * $d https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/transgender/index.html
+.PP
+ it won't work without the eval. Saying
+ d=LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8 w3m -dump
+ will get
+ /bin/sh: LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8: command not found
 
 .SH DIAGNOSTICS
 cron requires that each entry in a crontab end in a newline character.  If the
Index: cron/spcrc-crontab
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ cron/spcrc-crontab
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+# ============ this file is to colorize crontabs ==========
+#        1         2         3         4         5
+#2345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
+# HTML COLOR         COL A N T STRING or REGULAR EXPRESSION
+#################### ### # # # ############################
+#Where:
+#  HTML COLOR - Standard HTML Color name for HTML output
+#  COL        - Console color name from the list
+#                 red, yel, cya, grn, mag, blk, whi, blu
+#  A          - Attribute from the list
+#                 ' ' : normal
+#                 'b' : bold
+#                 'u' : underline
+#                 'r' : reverse video
+#                 'k' : blink
+#  N          - number of matches
+#                 ' ' : all
+#                 '0' : all
+#                 '1' - '9' : number of matches
+#  T          - type of matching to perform
+#                 'c' : characters
+#                 's' : string
+#                 'r' : regex - case   sensitive
+#                 'R' : regex - case insensitive
+#                 't' : regex with Unix time conversion
+#                 ' ' : default ('r' regex)
+#        1         2         3         4         5
+#2345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
+# HTML COLOR         COL A N T STRING or REGULAR EXPRESSION
+#################### ### # # # ############################
+#                                        dom is blue + bold
+Blue                 blu b 5   \s+(\S+)
+#                                     month is green + bold
+Green                grn b 4   \s+(\S+)
+#                              dow is green + reverse video
+Green                grn r 3   \s+(\S+)
+#                                        hour is red + bold
+Red                  red b 2   \s+(\S+)
+#                             minute is red + reverse video
+Red                  red r 1   \s*(\S+)
+#                                      comments are magenta
+Magenta              mag       (^#.*)
Index: cron/crontab.1
===================================================================
--- cron.orig/crontab.1
+++ cron/crontab.1
@@ -139,8 +139,22 @@ original behaviour by setting the enviro
 to 'N', which will cause the
 .I crontab \-l
 command to emit the extraneous header.
+.SH HIGHLIGHTING THE OUTPUT of crontab \-l
+The command
+.I crontab \-l
+outputs plain text. When a tty can support ANSI sequences to colourise
+this text, one can highlight the output, by calling:
+.I crontab \-l | spc -t crontab
+when the tty background is dark, or
+.I crontab \-l | spc -t crontab-light
+when this background is light.
+.PP
+The highlighting scheme can be modified by using customised versions of
+files
+.I /etc/supercat/spcrc-crontab*
+
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
-crontab(5), cron(8)
+crontab(5), cron(8), spc(1)
 .SH FILES
 .nf
 /etc/cron.allow
Index: cron/spcrc-crontab-light
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ cron/spcrc-crontab-light
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+# ============ this file is to colorize crontabs ==========
+#        1         2         3         4         5
+#2345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
+# HTML COLOR         COL A N T STRING or REGULAR EXPRESSION
+#################### ### # # # ############################
+#Where:
+#  HTML COLOR - Standard HTML Color name for HTML output
+#  COL        - Console color name from the list
+#                 red, yel, cya, grn, mag, blk, whi, blu
+#  A          - Attribute from the list
+#                 ' ' : normal
+#                 'b' : bold
+#                 'u' : underline
+#                 'r' : reverse video
+#                 'k' : blink
+#  N          - number of matches
+#                 ' ' : all
+#                 '0' : all
+#                 '1' - '9' : number of matches
+#  T          - type of matching to perform
+#                 'c' : characters
+#                 's' : string
+#                 'r' : regex - case   sensitive
+#                 'R' : regex - case insensitive
+#                 't' : regex with Unix time conversion
+#                 ' ' : default ('r' regex)
+#        1         2         3         4         5
+#2345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
+# HTML COLOR         COL A N T STRING or REGULAR EXPRESSION
+#################### ### # # # ############################
+#                                          default is black
+Black                blk       (.*)
+#                                        dom is blue + bold
+Blue                 blu b 5   \s+(\S+)
+#                                     month is green + bold
+Green                grn b 4   \s+(\S+)
+#                              dow is green + reverse video
+Green                grn r 3   \s+(\S+)
+#                                        hour is red + bold
+Red                  red b 2   \s+(\S+)
+#                             minute is red + reverse video
+Red                  red r 1   \s*(\S+)
+#                                      comments are magenta
+Magenta              mag       (^#.*)
