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Summary: TE macro implementations should check TW register
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: gbranden
Submitted on: Wed 19 Jan 2022 10:41:13 AM UTC
Category: Macro - others/general
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Feature change
Status: In Progress
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: gbranden
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Details:
The `TW` register has been part of the tbl(1) spec for the best
part of 50 years.
Macro packages' `TE` macros could test this register's value
against the line length and warn if a table is too wide.
I propose to do this.
(For man(7), I'll guard this behind the `CHECKSTYLE` register.)
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