> In the not yet public version of `runoff.7', there is a table > consisting of several pages. But in groff, it was impossible > to use a single table; I had to split each page as a table of > its own (both in nroff and troff).
But that is a problem of the man macros, not groff in general. Normally you would do .TS H header common to all pages .TH table data, possibly several pages long .TE but man has no real table support (TS and TE are mostly no-ops, and TH is used for a different purpose); me has no problem with it.