Quirk-compatibility with GNU tbl(1):

With the "nospaces" option, skip space characters before and after "T{",
in addition to skipping those at the beginning and end of data cells.

Minor issue reported by <Oliver dot Corff at email dot de>.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/tbl_data.c b/tbl_data.c
index 43d6ef5d..5938f7ce 100644
--- a/tbl_data.c
+++ b/tbl_data.c
@@ -147,25 +147,28 @@ getdata(struct tbl_node *tbl, struct tbl_span *dp,
 		dp->last->next = dat;
 	dp->last = dat;
 
+	/* Strip leading and trailing spaces, if requested. */
+
+	endpos = *pos;
+	if (dp->opts->opts & TBL_OPT_NOSPACE) {
+		while (p[startpos] == ' ')
+			startpos++;
+		while (endpos > startpos && p[endpos - 1] == ' ')
+			endpos--;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Check for a continued-data scope opening.  This consists of a
 	 * trailing `T{' at the end of the line.  Subsequent lines,
 	 * until a standalone `T}', are included in our cell.
 	 */
 
-	if (*pos - startpos == 2 &&
+	if (endpos - startpos == 2 &&
 	    p[startpos] == 'T' && p[startpos + 1] == '{') {
 		tbl->part = TBL_PART_CDATA;
 		return;
 	}
 
-	endpos = *pos;
-	if (dp->opts->opts & TBL_OPT_NOSPACE) {
-		while (p[startpos] == ' ')
-			startpos++;
-		while (endpos > startpos && p[endpos - 1] == ' ')
-			endpos--;
-	}
 	dat->string = mandoc_strndup(p + startpos, endpos - startpos);
 
 	if (p[*pos] != '\0')