Re: [Groff] _Unix Text Processing_ Fails to Build.

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> Actually, this is quite a serious problem IMHO: How can I guarantee
>> that tbl and eqn harmonize?  Maybe ignore .tm and .tm1 lines
>> completely?
> 
> Or wrap them in something that turns off delim and restores it?  :-(

This is a very good idea!  Unfortunately, it needs an extension of eqn
which doesn't exist yet:

  delim on

to reactivate the previous delimiter characters (in compatibility mode
`on' would rather set the start and end delimiter characters to `o'
and `n', respectively).

> Or document what shouldn't be used because tbl needs them?

Yes, this is another possibility: The documentation already says that
`#' must not be used as a delimiter due to the existence of the `.T#'
macro.  But I feel uncomfortable to actually disable three characters
(`'#) just because of an internal macro and warning messages.  I think
it's better to lift the limitation instead.


    Werner