Re: Using '.vs 0' inside TBL macro

[Werner LEMBERG]

> o Since version 1.19 you can say `.vs 0'.  Older versions emit a warning 
> and convert this to `.vs \n[.V]'.
> 
> This seems to break my tables, which have been using '.vs 0' to
> disable vertical movement inside gtbl macro.

Hmm, why can't you change

  .vs 0

to

  .vs \n[.V]

in your macro package?  This

  1) gives identical results with all groff versions

  2) doesn't use an obscure feature of .vs which wasn't intuitive

> I'm not sure if the new behavior (.vs 0 => converted to .vs
> <default>) is intentional.

It's exactly the opposite!  The old versions converted `.vs 0'
silently to `.vs \n[.V]' -- it was simply not possible to completely
disable vertical movement with .vs.


    Werner