This is a groff(1)-related mail, so I'm not sure if CC'ing schwarze@ is
appropriate, if not, my apologies.

I noticed that the djview4(1) man page contains lots of artefacts
stemming from an incorrect rendering of tables, as in the paragraph
below:

----- 8< -----
center,box; lfI l lfB l lfB l lfB l lfB l
number    Magnification factor in range 10% to 999%.
one2one   Select the "one-to-one" mode.  width     Select the
"fit width" mode.  page Select the "fit page" mode.
stretch   Stretch the image to the plugin window size.
----- >8 -----

which is the result of the source

.TS
center,box;
lfI l
lfB l
lfB l
lfB l
lfB l
.
number  Magnification factor in range 10% to 999%.
one2one Select the "one-to-one" mode.
width   Select the "fit width" mode.
page    Select the "fit page" mode.
stretch Stretch the image to the plugin window size.
.TE

when one lets it compile with `groff -Tascii' without the `-t' option
for preliminary tbl(7) rendering.

The full manual is available here:
http://sourceforge.net/p/djvu/djview-git/ci/master/tree/src/djview.1

The artefacts are irritating, but I'm not sure if the result of
`groff -t -Tascii' is preferable since it confuses less(1) and more(1)
at least in uxterm(1) in that the resulting terminal escapes for bold
and italic fonts aren't rendered correctly either and produce other
irritating artefacts. 

I'm not sure whether this is a common problem and whether there is a
standard way of dealing with this kind of situation.

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