- int pos;
-
- pos = 0;
-
- if ('\0' == p[pos]) {
- mandoc_msg(MANDOCERR_TBL, tbl->parse, ln, pos, NULL);
- return(0);
+ struct tbl_cell *cp;
+ struct tbl_span *sp;
+
+ rp = (sp = tbl->last_span) == NULL ? tbl->first_row :
+ sp->pos == TBL_SPAN_DATA && sp->layout->next != NULL ?
+ sp->layout->next : sp->layout;
+
+ assert(rp != NULL);
+
+ if (p[1] == '\0') {
+ switch (p[0]) {
+ case '.':
+ /*
+ * Empty request lines must be handled here
+ * and cannot be discarded in roff_parseln()
+ * because in the layout section, they
+ * are significant and end the layout.
+ */
+ return;
+ case '_':
+ sp = newspan(tbl, ln, rp);
+ sp->pos = TBL_SPAN_HORIZ;
+ return;
+ case '=':
+ sp = newspan(tbl, ln, rp);
+ sp->pos = TBL_SPAN_DHORIZ;
+ return;
+ default:
+ break;
+ }