Re: [Groff] Bug report: interaction between tbl and string variables

[Larry Kollar]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> Indeed.  tbl sees that you want to format a numeric field, but you
> don't give numbers but string registers.  To align numbers on the
> decimal point it has to interpret the number since this must be done
> by tbl itself, and during this process the string register name gets
> truncated ...
>
>
> > While I still think it's a bug, [...]
>
> Why do you think so?  At tbl stage it's impossible to expand a string
> register!

Because it's truncating the string register. I think the correct  
behavior would be to pass it through without truncating.

Like I said, though, it's a moot point. Creating proper replacement  
markup macros only took a few minutes.

-- Larry