Re: [Groff] bug in GNU troff?

[Larry Jones]

Werner LEMBERG writes:
> 
> This gives
> 
> a     b
> aa     bb
> 
> which is incorrect.  What is the behaviour of UNIX troff?

Identical.  It is, perhaps, illustrative to consider a slightly modified
example:

a\tb
.br
a\c
\t\c
b
.br
aa\c
\t\c
bb

Which gives:

a    b
a     b
aa     bb

-Larry Jones

My upbringing is filled with inconsistent messages. -- Calvin