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 could
become troff logic that was evaluated later, when the contents of
string
registers 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
