>> 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?
I'm not aware of any. > 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). Could you provide a patch which I can directly apply to the groff CVS? Werner