> Yes, I could go back, find tables with T} in them, and revert them > to list markup and similar kluges. But that would just bring us > trouble from another direction. Many of the weird constructs I > replaced with tables (I'm thinking, for example, of the T2 macro in > groff_mm.man) will completely break manhtml and non-groff viewers. > That's why I moved a lot of this stuff to tables to begin with.
What's the problem with .TQ? Most of the data in groff_mm.man can be represented with this macro in a satisfying way, I believe. > Instead, let's steal a trick from the HTML book and implement a > column width syntax that specifies a fraction of total line width. Example, please. It's not completely clear to me what you want to do. Werner