This looks like a bug to me. I first observed this in my recent tutorial additions to groff_man(7) about indentation and the left margin. When you use boxed tables without subsequent vertical spacing with the grotty postprocessor, the table end overlaps the following text line.
$ cat tbl-and-nroff.roff before-table .TS box; l. Here's a boxed table with some stuff in it. .TE after-table $ head -n 5 /tmp/tbl-and-nroff.txt before‐table ┌───────────────────────┐ │Here’s a boxed table │ │with some stuff in it. │ └a─f─t─e─r─‐─t─a─b─l─e─────────────┘ Or, without the overstriking: $ col -bx < /tmp/tbl-and_nroff.head.txt | head -n 5 before‐table ┌───────────────────────┐ │Here’s a boxed table │ │with some stuff in it. │ after‐table─────────────┘ It seems the output position returns to the last line of table data; if I run tbl manually and hack up the output to insert '.vs 2v' before the '.TE', I get this: $ nroff /tmp/tbl-and-nroff-after-tbl.roff|head -n 6 before‐table ┌───────────────────────┐ │Here’s a boxed table │ │with some stuff in it. │ └───────────────────────┘ after‐table What do y'all think? Regards, Branden
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