URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68830>
Summary: [tbl] Save/restore line thickness when respectively
entering/exiting table region
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: None
Submitted: Sun 25 Oct 2026 01:40:26 AM UTC
Category: Preprocessor tbl
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Feature change
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Planned Release: None
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Date: Sun 25 Oct 2026 01:40:26 AM UTC By: Anonymous
Branden wrote the following in bug #68671:
GNU _tbl_ does not bother to configure a line thickness unless the user
specifies the `linesize()` region option.
[Documentation redacted]
There may be a problem here. The default isn't in fact the **formatter**'s
default (what is described here), but the formatter's **current state**. Even
more precisely, it's the **output driver**'s current state, which, if it
supports the `t` drawing extension command at all, we expect it to absorb and
interpret as we document.
[Example excised]
I tentatively conclude that GNU _tbl_'s implementation is correct and the
documentation wrong. But we could change tbl to save the configured line
thickness when entering the table region, explicitly set it (to '-1' if not
user-specified), and then restore the saved line thickness when exiting the
table region.
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