Using: $ groff --version
GNU groff version 1.23.0 Spurious warnings: test.grf:6: Invalid horizontal alignment 'f': must be 'b', 'c', 'l' or 'r'. test.grf:8: Invalid horizontal alignment 'v': must be 'b', 'c', 'l' or 'r'. and faulty output are triggered by a: groff -k -Tpdf -ms -m hdtbl -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 /tmp/test.grf > /tmp/vde.pdf on: .LP .TBL width='1.2i 0.3i 4.5i' vl= .TR .TD colspan=3 hal=c "English cf Danish" .TR .TD half .TD - .TD halv (oldnorse: halfr ; germanic common) .ETB The generated pdf table omits both triggering words; they're swallowed as formatting control. I'll attach the test file as well, for convenience. An older version of groff behaved the same, so it's not a recent artifact, I figure. Joachim Walsdorff's account at Heidelberg Uni has expired, so I'll report the anomaly here, to begin with. Erik
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