Re: [Groff] tbl - extended format specification

[Werner LEMBERG]

> OK, it seems to be easy to implement.

Good :-)

> m,M 
>  Either of these specifiers may be followed by a macro name 
>  (either one or two characters long), or long name in parentheses
>  (the last form is a GNU tbl extension).

`m' itself (or rather a different key letter as discussed in another
mail) is a GNU tbl extension.

>  A one-letter macro name must be separated by one or more blanks
>  from whatever follows.
>  The macro which name can be specified here must be defined before
>  creating the table and is called just before the tables cell text
>  is output.
>  As implemented now, this macro is only called when block input is
>  used, that is text between T{ and T}.

Hmm, does this restriction make sense?

>  The macro should contain only simple troff requests to change the
>  text block formatting, like text adjustment, hyphenation, size or
>  font.

This should be explained more explicitly after the new keyword has
been implemented.


    Werner