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From: | Larry Kollar |
Subject: | Re: [Groff] Bug report: interaction between tbl and string variables |
Date: | Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:44:25 -0500 |
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
It's something to do with tbl not correctly copying the whole string register name into the troff output. ... [example deleted] ... Given tbl is a preprocessor and looks at the text you give to work out alignment, it's probably not surprising? I suppose tbl's logic couldbecome troff logic that was evaluated later, when the contents of stringregisters are known. This would be a change in behaviour though.
Thanks for the explanation, Ralph. While I still think it's a bug, these tables are common enough that they should probably have their own tags/macros anyway. Fortunately, it was a pretty simple addition.
-- Larry
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