Maybe this is a misunderstanding. > 1) Sandra L Emerson, Karen Paulsell - troff TYPESETTING for UNIX(TM) Systems > (1987) > This book seems to come from System V. > It documents that "(T)" has the meaning of a tab char for cell jumping.
On page 80 it is mentioned: "In the following example, the TAB key is indicated by (T) in the input." > 2) David Barron, Mike Rees - Text Processing and Typesetting with UNIX > (1987) > It documents that "<T>" has the meaning of a tab char for cell jumping. On page 128 it is mentioned: "Note that in this figure, <T> denotes the tab character." > So far, groff does not use these. With these additions the line with > tab(...); is no longer necessary. Is tab(...); really an issue? I don't think so. > I have now trouble with C++. So could someone else try to add these > character combinations to the .cpp files in src/preproc/tbl? > > It might be possible, to allow also strings in the tab()-line as a first > step, instead of now only single character methods. qtbl is already really very good.
