> So, perhaps the patch to the .bl macro as in your subsequent example > ought to be applied to groff's e.tmac (maybe with a comment to explain > what is going on, though e.tmac is pretty light on comments to begin > with, and they all get stripped from the installed version anyway). > Does that seem like a reasonable change? If so, I can go ahead and > create the patch file if you don't want to do it.
Is there a maintainer for the macro package? If so, maybe the patch should be applied upstream. For the space-testing macro I used a two-character name (in a style similar to other "me" internal macros), because the "me" macros are also used with other roffs (notably Plan 9 troff and Heirloom troff).