Add ability to interpret initial free-form lines as part of a `Bl

-column' up until the first `It'.  This is UGLY and should have all
sorts of warnings, and will.  On the one hand, it fits with groff's
notion of tabs and tab-spaces.  On the other hand, it's not really
"free-form" text any more.  Note that this does not yet accomodate for
macros coming on these lines.

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mdoc.c b/mdoc.c
index 8aeec090..2d12e06d 100644
--- a/mdoc.c
+++ b/mdoc.c
@@ -542,7 +542,8 @@ mdoc_node_delete(struct mdoc *m, struct mdoc_node *p)
 static int
 mdoc_ptext(struct mdoc *m, int line, char *buf, int offs)
 {
-	char		*c, *ws, *end;
+	char		 *c, *ws, *end;
+	struct mdoc_node *n;
 
 	/* Ignore bogus comments. */
 
@@ -556,6 +557,29 @@ mdoc_ptext(struct mdoc *m, int line, char *buf, int offs)
 	if (SEC_NONE == m->lastnamed)
 		return(mdoc_pmsg(m, line, offs, MANDOCERR_NOTEXT));
 
+	assert(m->last);
+	n = m->last;
+
+	/*
+	 * Diver directly into list processing if we're encountering a
+	 * columnar MDOC_BLOCK with or without a prior MDOC_BLOCK entry
+	 * (if it's a MDOC_BODY that means it's open, in which case we
+	 * should process within its context).
+	 */
+
+	if (MDOC_Bl == n->tok && LIST_column == n->data.list) {
+		m->flags |= MDOC_FREECOL;
+		return(mdoc_macro(m, MDOC_It, line, offs, &offs, buf));
+	}
+
+	if (MDOC_It == n->tok && MDOC_BLOCK == n->type &&
+			NULL != n->parent &&
+			MDOC_Bl == n->parent->tok &&
+			LIST_column == n->parent->data.list) {
+		m->flags |= MDOC_FREECOL;
+		return(mdoc_macro(m, MDOC_It, line, offs, &offs, buf));
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Search for the beginning of unescaped trailing whitespace (ws)
 	 * and for the first character not to be output (end).