Update of bug#65081 (group groff):
Status: None => Invalid
Assigned to: None => gbranden
Open/Closed: Open => Closed
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Follow-up Comment #1:
[comment #0 original submission:]
> Subject: doc/ms.ms: line length can't be changed for "groff"
> output
>
> groff -ms -t -p -rLL=87n -dFAM=H -ww -b -z doc/ms.ms
>
> shows
>
> doc/ms.ms:543: warning: table wider than line length minus indentation
It *can* be changed, and you'd see this if you didn't discard the output.
$ ~/groff-stable/bin/groff --version | head -n 1
GNU groff version 1.23.0
$ ~/groff-stable/bin/groff -a -b -ww -ms -dFAM=H -p -t ./doc/ms.ms |head
<beginning of page>
Using groff with the ms Macro Package
Larry Kollar
kol...@alltel.net
G. Branden Robinson
g.branden.robin...@gmail.com
The ms (<lq>manuscript<rq>) package is suitable for the composition of
letters,
memoranda, reports, and books. These groff macros feature cover page and
table of contents generation, automatically numbered headings, several
para<hy>
./doc/ms.ms:542: warning: table wider than line length minus indentation
$ ~/groff-stable/bin/groff -a -b -ww -ms -dFAM=H -rLL=120n -p -t ./doc/ms.ms
|head
<beginning of page>
Using groff with the ms Macro Package
Larry Kollar
kol...@alltel.net
G. Branden Robinson
g.branden.robin...@gmail.com
The ms (<lq>manuscript<rq>) package is suitable for the composition of
letters, memoranda, reports, and
books. These groff macros feature cover page and table of contents
generation, automatically num<hy>
bered headings, several paragraph styles, a variety of text styling options,
footnotes, and multi-column
It is furthermore not an error for this document to throw the warning when you
change the font family. Helvetica doesn't have the same metrics as Times.
One should expect to get warnings, or overset lines when filling is disabled,
if one changes the typeface.
Resolving as invalid.
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