> Why would you want a table *inside* a paragraph rather than > starting a new paragraph after a table?
The table may be in a floating keep (e.g. .KF in -ms mmacros). Then it's quite likely to pop up in the middle of a paragraph. The suggestion to cause .TE to insert space would pose minimal threat to documents that have overt .PP's (or equivalents) after .TE if the space is inserted by .sp \n[PD} \" PD is interparagraph distacne as in -man .ns The downside is that this has to be done in lots of macro packages. Maybe tbl could output that sequence before .TE, but leaving groff in no-space mode is (to my mind) too great a change in the specs of tbl. Doug