Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Even if we knew the column position at output time, when we are doing
> aligned column width computations, we don't know the width of the
> previous columns so we would have no way to know how far the tab would
> extend in the current column.

If you start counting every line from the start of the current column,
it will align correctly regardless of the previous columns.

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