While I'm on the subject of .bl's behavior in -me, I'm running across another curious issue: .bl, which ordinarily works at the top of a page, does not seem to do so when inside a .(c block. I am not sure if this is a bug, or if I'm misunderstanding some subtlety of the interaction between these two macros.
As a minimal example, the first .bl is ignored when the following is the first thing on a page: .(c .bl 20 center me .bl 20 .)c .pp Here is text. If I place the first .bl outside the centered block, it works in the top-of-page instance, but of course, this breaks the general instance, where the .bl should be part of the block. This behavior does not appear to be the result of no-space mode being in effect: putting a .rs either before or after the .(c -- or even in both places -- does not cause the first .bl inside the block to be honored. I also tested both with and without Tadziu Hoffmann's recent patch to the .(c macro (posted here Nov 5) to see if that made a difference; it didn't.
