[bug #61909] [tbl] does not suppress inter-sentence space outside of text blocks

[G. Branden Robinson]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61909>

                 Summary: [tbl] does not suppress inter-sentence space outside
of text blocks
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: gbranden
            Submitted on: Mon 24 Jan 2022 03:01:32 PM UTC
                Category: Preprocessor tbl
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect behaviour
                  Status: Confirmed
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

The tbl(1)s from Heirloom Doctools and Unix Version 7 do not supplement an
ordinary table entry with inter-sentence space, but groff's tbl(1) does.

This seems wrong.  This bug is present in groff 1.22.4.


$ cat EXPERIMENTS/tbl-iss.roff 
.ss 12 120
.TS
L.
Foo.  Bar.
.TE
$ nroff -t EXPERIMENTS/tbl-iss.roff | cat -s
Foo.           Bar.




PDP-11 simulator V3.8-1
sim> set cpu 11/45
Disabling XQ
sim> set tto 7b
sim> att rl unix_v7_rl.dsk
sim> boot rl
@boot
New Boot, known devices are hp ht rk rl rp tm vt 
: rl(0,0)rl2unix
mem = 177856
# Restricted rights: Use, duplication, or disclosure
is subject to restrictions stated in your contract with
Western Electric Company, Inc.
Thu Sep 22 08:27:53 EDT 1988

login: dmr
$ cat > tbl-iss.roff
.ss 12 120
.TS
L.
Foo.  Bar.
.TE
$ tbl tbl-iss.roff | nroff
Foo.  Bar.



I'll have a look and see how hard this is.




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