[Groff] Re: tbl query

[Robert Goulding]

OK, the problem with justifying text blocks *is* due to an infelicity in -me.  
.TS switches into environment 1 to set the table, by means of the internal 
macro address@hidden which takes over to the new environment most of the 
typesetting 
information (point size, font, indent etc.) but *NOT* adjustment.  This can 
be trivially fixed by altering the definition of the @C macro to:

.de @C
.nr _S \\n(.s
.nr _V \\n(.v
.nr _F \\n(.f
.nr _J \\n(.j
.do ds _A \\n[.fam]
.nr _I \\n(.i
.ev \\$1
.ps \\n(_S
.vs \\n(_Vu
.ft \\n(_F
.ad \\n(_J
.do @fam \\*(_A
'in \\n(_Iu
.xl \\n($lu
.lt \\n($lu
.rr _S
.rr _V
.rr _F
.rr _I
.rr _J
.ls 1
'ce 0
..

-me also switches into environment 1 for displays and blockquotes.  Minimal 
testing suggests that this alteration doesn't have any catastrophic 
side-effects on these elements...  Should e.tmac itself be modified in this 
way, so that its treatment of tables conforms to that of the other macro 
sets?

R.
-- 
Robert Goulding
Society of Fellows
Princeton NJ 08540