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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (George Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.bugs
Subject: output from tbl
Message-ID: <905@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Jan-84 17:20:40 EST
Article-I.D.: sunybcs.905
Posted: Mon Jan  2 17:20:40 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Jan-84 01:19:34 EST
Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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For some reason, when tbl writes the actual table entries, it surrounds
them with delimiters.  Example:

input:	.TS
	l l.
	alpha (T) beta
	.TE

output:	...
	\&\h'...'^B^Calpha^B\h'...'^Bbeta^C^B
	...

Does anybody know why?  Obviously the delimiters should not be there.

Troff badly misplaces the -me special characters
because of these spurious delimiters.
And of course, if your entries contain all the troff-acceptable
control characters, tbl will choose graphics for delimiters.  Try it!

The fix ought to be to change t8.c to just not print the delimiters.
But will that kill something?
			G. L. Sicherman
			...seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!colonel