[bug #61559] [tbl] does not accept perverse tab and delim characters

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #61559 (project groff):

 Summary: tbl does not accept perverse tab and delim
characters => [tbl] does not accept perverse tab and delim characters


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[bug #61559] tbl does not accept perverse tab and delim characters

[G. Branden Robinson]

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 Summary: tbl does not accept perverse tab and delim
characters
 Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: gbranden
Submitted on: Thu 25 Nov 2021 01:13:20 PM UTC
Category: Preprocessor tbl
Severity: 1 - Wish
  Item Group: New feature
  Status: None
 Privacy: Public
 Assigned to: None
 Open/Closed: Open
 Discussion Lock: Any
 Planned Release: None

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Details:

tab(() and delim(()) don't work well, although in principle they could be
supported--just need a bit more state in the parser in
main.cpp:process_options().

Noticed while trying to figure out if some of the code in that same function
is even reachable.




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