Re: tbl: off-by-one line error at table ends with grotty?

[Tadziu Hoffmann]

> This behaviour has been around long enough that by now, I
> think almost all authors have become used to inserting .PP,
> .Pp, or the equivalent in whatever macro set they are using,
> or some .sp if they are using no macro set, right after .TE.

I will argue that fixing this particular problem here should
be the job of the TE macro, tuned for each device.  (This is
what good macro packages do.)  As a minimal example, try

  .de TE
  .if n .sp
  ..

This way, no markup has to be changed to get nice-looking
output on all devices.


(Btw, back in the day, many terminals had half-line capability,
which means that nroff could print a horizontal line between
two lines of text just fine.)