Re: [Groff] Weird variety of troff/nroff

[Larry Jones]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> Does anyone out there have any idea of which variant of UNIX
> troff/nroff uses the folllowing decidedly non-standard syntax
> in 'tbl'? (We're talking early-mid 80s).
> 
> .TS
> .center box;
> l l l.

I think all versions of AT&T tbl ignore miscellaneous punctuation
characters in the options.  I submitted a patch to groff's tbl to do the
same thing long ago -- doesn't it handle this case?

-Larry Jones

It's going to be a long year. -- Calvin