[bug #61559] tbl does not accept perverse tab and delim characters

[G. Branden Robinson]

URL:
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                 Summary: tbl does not accept perverse tab and delim
characters
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: gbranden
            Submitted on: Thu 25 Nov 2021 01:13:20 PM UTC
                Category: Preprocessor tbl
                Severity: 1 - Wish
              Item Group: New feature
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

tab(() and delim(()) don't work well, although in principle they could be
supported--just need a bit more state in the parser in
main.cpp:process_options().

Noticed while trying to figure out if some of the code in that same function
is even reachable.




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