> I'll try to follow up Werner's hint later. Meanwhile, looking for
> something "clever", I seem to have found that the escape "\R'...'"
> (\R'NAME VAL' sets register named NAME to value VAL) does not work
> in a table:
You've missed the following feature of tbl:
A data item consisting only of `\Rx' (`x' any character) is
replaced by repetitions of character `x' as wide as the column (not
joining its neighbours).
If you use the \E escape character to hide `\R', you get the right
result, e.g.
.TS
tab(#);
|l2 | l2 | l2 | l |.
_
Row 1, Col 1#Row 1, Col 2#Row 1, Col 3#\ER'POS1 \n[nl]'Row 1, Col 4
Row 2, Col 1#Row 2, Col 2#Row 2, Col 3#\ER'POS2 \n[nl]'Row 2, Col 4
.TE
.tm POS1 == \n[POS1]
.tm POS2 == \n[POS2]
=> POS1 == 0
POS2 == 14000
Werner
