On Sun Feb 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM CET, onf wrote: > [...] > TL;DR: > With the default settings, a tab essentially translates into a > horizontal motion. [...] > This is because tab stops are related to the beginning of a paragraph > rather than the beginning of an output line as one would expect. > > The desired behavior can be enabled with the request .linetabs, > but this is groff-specific and not supported by other troffs.
By the way, Branden, are you aware of any use case where the default behavior is actually desirable? I am contemplating patching neatroff to behave like groff with enabled linetabs mode outside compatibility mode... ~ onf
