Re: [Groff] tbl: <T> and (T) as tab

[Carsten Kunze]

Maybe this is a misunderstanding.

> 1) Sandra L Emerson, Karen Paulsell - troff TYPESETTING for UNIX(TM) Systems
> (1987)
> This book seems to come from System V.
> It documents that "(T)" has the meaning of a tab char for cell jumping.

On page 80 it is mentioned: "In the following example, the TAB key is indicated
by (T) in the input."

> 2) David Barron, Mike Rees - Text Processing and Typesetting with UNIX
> (1987)
> It documents that "<T>" has the meaning of a tab char for cell jumping.

On page 128 it is mentioned: "Note that in this figure, <T> denotes the tab
character."

> So far, groff does not use these.  With these additions the line with
> tab(...); is no longer necessary.

Is tab(...); really an issue? I don't think so.

> I have now trouble with C++.  So could someone else try to add these
> character combinations to the .cpp files in src/preproc/tbl?
> 
> It might be possible, to allow also strings in the tab()-line as a first
> step, instead of now only single character methods.

qtbl is already really very good.