Follow-up Comment #5, bug #61909 (project groff):
[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.
> So should we look at V7 troff?
Only if you consider that fun. I withdraw my dissent.
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