[bug #61597] [tbl] change spacing applied to "|" column classifier and support "0" modifier

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #61597 (project groff):

                 Summary: [tbl] make "|" column classifier output less ugly in
nroff mode => [tbl] change spacing applied to "|" column classifier and
support "0" modifier

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Follow-up Comment #3:

See bug #62471 for the general problem with horizontal and vertical rules
being drawn too wide/tall in nroff mode.

I want to restrict this ticket to the issue I took my time getting around to
in comment #0.

> I propose that GNU tbl be changed so the "|" column classifier adds one en
of space after a leading occurrence on a table row.  I further propose that
its format parser accept, as a special case, a column width modifier of zero
(and only zero), which prevents the insertion of one en of space before or
after the vertical line.

This should eliminate the need for the dummy column hack documented in
_tbl_(1), and enable a closer resemblance between typesetter and terminal
output.


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