Update of bug #63176 (group groff): Status: Need Info => Confirmed
_______________________________________________________ Follow-up Comment #8: [comment #7 comment #7:] > Here's a proposed patch. Applied, I see, in [http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=4796dc773 commit 4796dc773]. > What do you think of these? Those are good as a heads-up to the user unless/until further debugging can happen. > Hypothetically, if we have a register that means "I want > footnote in 1 column at the page foot no matter how many > columns are otherwise in the running text", I think, as I probably wrote somewhere over in bug #58736, that a user trying to do tricky things with footnotes in -me will have to largely fend for themselves, as the macro package can't reasonably anticipate every tricky layout a user might want. So personally I wouldn't worry about such a hypothetical register. If an Eric Allman Jr. comes along who wants to devote a lot of time and energy to expanding -me functionality, have at it! To my mind, -me entered maintenance mode decades ago; all I expect from it is bug fixes. However, I maintain that the example in the [comment #0 original submission]--a footnote defined in single-column text being output while the running text is in single-column mode--doesn't qualify as a tricky situation, and the produced output does qualify as a bug. I still suspect, as I did back in comment #1, that something is triggering the end-of-page trap prematurely. I blamed the .1c macro there, but the debugging output of comment #3 suggests .bc might be the culprit. The formatter shouldn't be anywhere near the end of the page by end of input, at which point all the running text ought to already be on the page, leaving only the pending footnote to be output. But some of the running text landing _below_ the footnote suggests something is interfering with this order of events. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63176> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
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