+ char *c, *ws, *end;
+ struct mdoc_node *n;
+
+ /* Ignore bogus comments. */
+
+ if ('\\' == buf[offs] &&
+ '.' == buf[offs + 1] &&
+ '"' == buf[offs + 2])
+ return(mdoc_pmsg(m, line, offs, MANDOCERR_BADCOMMENT));
+
+ /* No text before an initial macro. */
+
+ if (SEC_NONE == m->lastnamed)
+ return(mdoc_pmsg(m, line, offs, MANDOCERR_NOTEXT));
+
+ assert(m->last);
+ n = m->last;
+
+ /*
+ * Divert directly to list processing if we're encountering a
+ * columnar MDOC_BLOCK with or without a prior MDOC_BLOCK entry
+ * (a MDOC_BODY means it's already open, in which case we should
+ * process within its context in the normal way).
+ */
+
+ if (MDOC_Bl == n->tok && MDOC_BODY == n->type &&
+ LIST_column == n->data.Bl->type) {
+ /* `Bl' is open without any children. */
+ 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.Bl->type) {
+ /* `Bl' has block-level `It' children. */
+ 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).
+ */