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

[Dave]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #61909 (project groff):

This is certainly worth documenting as a groff difference.  But it's not clear
that it qualifies as a bug in groff rather than a bug in Heirloom troff.

In particular, groff's system seems to give the user options that Heirloom's
does not.  A groff user who doesn't want sentence spacing within a table need
only invoke a .ss request before the .TS/.TE block to disable it.  But how is
an Heirloom user who _does_ want such spacing to achieve it?

So making the groff behavior match Heirloom's would seem to give the user less
control over the table rendering.

(I focus on Heirloom rather than Unix V7 because tbl-iss.roff as posted here
is not legal V7 troff input: V7 troff's .ss request took only one argument. 
That it accepts the second without complaint only goes to show how long bug
#61450 has been around.)

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