[bug #62265] [tbl] tables in nroff mode seem to want one too many vees

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #62265 (project groff):

                  Status:                    None => Invalid                
             Assigned to:                    None => gbranden               
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #6:

Resolving this as invalid.

[comment #4 comment #4:]
> 1. I boneheadedly misled myself as noted above.  Not much can be done about
that.  Well, others might do the same.  See item 3, below.

"Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain."

> 2. The tbl(1) man page could add some cautions to nroff-oriented tbl users
about the vertical size of rules and box borders.

I've done this.


commit 7925122f390decc2cdcc6072645b9e16190587ad
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Aug 14 05:59:16 2022 -0500

    tbl(1): Document nroff mode vertical space issue.
    
    For me, at least, this knowledge was hard-won.  :-|


> 3. The man(7) package could really use keep macros.  I'm really itching to
scandalize Ingo by adding yet another feature.  But this one would be really
useful.  With ms(7)-like KS/KE macros, the user would never need to count
lines--as I have done, erroneously, multiple times--and nothing bad happens if
an implementation doesn't support them.  Well, nothing worse than would have
happened anyway.

Filed as bug #62911.


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