On 11-Sep-2012 16:22:38 James K. Lowden wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:06:29 +0200 > Tadziu Hoffmann <hoffm...@usm.uni-muenchen.de> wrote: > >> \^;\^ > > Weaving two threads, my copy of the tbl man page says, > > If a data line consists of only `_' or `=', a single or > double line, respectively, is drawn across the table at that > point; if a single item in a data line consists of only `_' or > `=', then that item is replaced by a single or double line, > joining its neighbours. > > Somebody evidently slipped that "u" into neighbor while the Americans > were otherwise occupied. > > --jkl
That may have been James Clarke, who was *creating* groff in the late 1980s in the UK. He would not have been happy with a variant spelling such as "neighbor". He would not have 'slipped that "u" into neghbour' -- he would have been setting it up himself! However, my then (1991) installation of groff is no longer accessible, so I can't check directly. Anyone know? Ted. ------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> Date: 11-Sep-2012 Time: 18:43:15 This message was sent by XFMail -------------------------------------------------