Update of bug#65077 (group groff):
Category: None => Macro ms
Item Group: None => Documentation
Status: None => Need Info
Assigned to: None => gbranden
Summary: Unexpected ms macros behavior => [ms] unexpected
suppression of `sp` effect after `DE` call
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Follow-up Comment #1:
[comment #0 original submission:]
> Command used:
> $ groff -k -ms -Tpdf doc.ms > doc.pdf
>
> When compiling with v1.22.4:
> - Text after `.sp 4i` is 4 inches below
>
> When compiling with v1.23.0:
> - `.sp 4i` is ignored?
>
> doc.ms:
>
> ```
> .CD
> Centered text
> .DE
> .sp 4i
> This should be 4 inches lower on the page
> ```
This is an expected behavior change in _groff_ 1.23.0 _ms_ per the NEWS file.
o The s (ms) macro package now enables the formatter's "no-space mode"
after ending displays (`DE`), equations (`EN`), tables (`TE`), and
pictures without flyback (`PE`). This means that display distance
spacing (the `DD` register) overrides the spacing that may follow in a
subsequent paragraph, section heading, or display instead of
accumulating with that distance. This change is to make the behavior
of the package more predictable; you can fine-tune such spacing by
setting the `DD` register in desired places. It has also helped us to
improve groff ms's rendering of historical ms(7) documents such as
Kernighan & Cherry's "Typesetting Mathematics".
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/NEWS?h=1.23.0#n426
> I used this approach for centering since it is included in the groff_ms
manual.
There's nothing wrong with centering text that way; the issue here is that
under traditional _ms_ it was unspecified whether vertical spacing arising
from `sp` requests combined with that implied by display, sectioning, or
paragraphing macros. (Or indeed whether the spacing implied by any of these
macros combined with that of the others.)
You can either restore spacing before invoking the `sp` request, or (perhaps
temporarily) alter the value of the display distance register `DD` before
ending your display.
.rs
.sp 4i
Centered text
.nr DDold \n[DD]
.nr DD 4i
.DE
.nr DD \n[DDold]
Does this help?
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