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

[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #61909 (project groff):

[comment #5 comment #5:]
> [comment #2 comment #2:]
> > > So making the groff behavior match Heirloom's would seem
> > > to give the user less control over the table rendering.
> > 
> > Things that go into tbl(1) table entries (that are not text
> > blocks) tend strongly to _not_ be sentences.  It is
> > surprising to me that each of the default text formatting
> > operations (enumerated in the man page) as "filling,
> > hyphenation, breaking, and adjustment" are disabled, but
> > supplementation with inter-sentence space is not.
> 
> I agree, in light of that, the groff tbl behavior seems the
> anomalous one.  I was too much of a tbl n00b to appreciate the
> distinction between text in a cell and a text block.

No worries.  If the new text in tbl(1) doesn't make this
_perfectly_ clear, please tell me.  I don't want others to
suffer as I did trying to craft a mental model of the
preprocessor's behavior.

> > So should we look at V7 troff?
> 
> Only if you consider that fun.

I kind of do, but not enough to gate this activity on it.  If
John joins the discussion, we may have a bit of sport with it.

I do have a sick longing to revive the Tektronix 4014 as an
output device, though.

> I withdraw my dissent.

Cool.  I will try to see if I can get inter-sentence spacing
saved and disabled at the start of a table region, temporarily
restored a during text block (which may issue requests to modify
or switch it back off again), re-suppressed, and then finally
restored at the end of the table region.

Regards,
Branden


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