Follow-up Comment #1, bug#65322 (group groff): The bug is latent in groff 1.22.4 and 1.23.0.
To observe it, apply the patch in bug #65320. $ cat ATTIC/pdffix.diff diff --git a/tmac/pdf.tmac b/tmac/pdf.tmac index 54175434f..fe12d35da 100644 --- a/tmac/pdf.tmac +++ b/tmac/pdf.tmac @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ .de pdfbookmark . tr \[em]- . nf . box pdf:clean -. nop \\$* +. nop \&\\$* . fl . box . chop pdf:clean $ patch -p1 < ATTIC/pdffix.diff patching file tmac/pdf.tmac $ ~/groff-stable/bin/groff --version GNU groff version 1.23.0 $ ~/groff-stable/bin/groff -M ./tmac -z -mom -Tpdf ./EXPERIMENTS/heading.mom troff: ../src/roff/troff/input.cpp:523: static int input_stack::finish_get(node**): Assertion `level == 0' failed. /home/branden/groff-stable/bin/groff: error: troff: Aborted (core dumped) $ /usr/bin/groff --version GNU groff version 1.22.4 [...] $ /usr/bin/groff -M ./tmac -z -mom -Tpdf ./EXPERIMENTS/heading.mom troff: ./EXPERIMENTS/heading.mom:2: can't transparently output node at top level troff: ./EXPERIMENTS/heading.mom:2: can't transparently output node at top level troff: ./EXPERIMENTS/heading.mom:3: can't transparently output node at top level troff: ./EXPERIMENTS/heading.mom:5: can't transparently output node at top level troff: Failed assertion at line 524, file '../../src/roff/troff/input.cpp'. /usr/bin/groff: troff: Signal 6 (core dumped) _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?65322> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/