Hi Carsten, > tbl does use ".ta".
Right, e.g. runtabs() in http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/tbl/t7.c called from http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/tbl/t8.c > If someone creates a document and sets .ta to some value, how should > tbl reset this value? Yes, I don't think it can be done in portable troff as the current positions aren't available to be saved. > Yes, it should be documented that tbl does "overwrite" the .ta setting > without restoring it. Yep. Cheers, Ralph.
