hi, I have not used `tbl' for some time and now see the following behaviour, which was not present before, I'm quite sure:
the inter-column space seems to be zero, i.e. in a table with all left centered columns the longest entry (max. width entry, I mean) in each column "touches" the neighbouring entry in the same row (in the next column), i.e. it looks something like this, for instance: ------ a b foobar ------ if column 1 has entries 'a' and 'foo' and column 2 'b' and 'bar'. which sure it should not. I was not lucky in the docs and the mail archive. so: question 1: is there a way to specify the inter-column spacing (minimal distance between end of some entry and next entry in the same row)? a register I should know of, e.g.? question 2: I have'nt seen this behaviour in the past. how come? has there been a change of default behaviour or am I doing something wrong which only surfaced now? joerg PS: I'm using `tbl' in conjunction with the `ms' macros and groff version 1.19.3 under MacOS.