>> 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