Re: [Groff] bug in GNU troff?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > 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

Does this behaviour make sense?  I would like to make this work as
expected (if not in compatibility mode).

Objections?  Do you know any package which relies on this strange
feature?


    Werner