At 2020-07-25T11:09:04-0400, Doug McIlroy wrote: > > 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.
A mixture of your and Tadziu's suggestions looked really promising for man(7). Then I looked at ms(7). We've got bigger problems. Try nroff with a doublebox table. Sigh. Regards, Branden
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