Re: Help wanted from me(7) users (was: [bug #59812] tbl: interferes with .nm line numbering)

[Dave Kemper]

On 2/25/21, G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I could use the help of a practiced me(7) user, particularly of the
> macros noted in Werner's commit above, to verify that my fix has not
> regressed desirable me(7) behavior.

I'm one of the more vocal -me users here, but I've never used tbl, so
I have no insight into the macros Werner referenced or the problem he
was addressing with his changes.

> it would probably regress the
> problem originally observed.  However, I don't know what it was; traffic
> on this list for July 2011 doesn't reveal anything.

A note on bug-groff from May 2011 seems to correspond to the commit in question:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-groff/2011-05/msg00000.html

Werner replied on that list in July, though part of the thread is
missing from the archive for reasons that are unexplained.