URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66380>
Summary: [mm] vertical space should precede date in `LT` blocked letters Group: GNU roff Submitter: gbranden Submitted: Sat 26 Oct 2024 06:05:22 AM UTC Category: Macro package mm Severity: 3 - Normal Item Group: Rendering/Cosmetics Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Follow-up Comments: ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat 26 Oct 2024 06:05:22 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden> Problem affects _groff_ 1.22.3 and later, likely earlier too. Exhibit: $ cat ATTIC/simpler-letter.mm .WA 123 Main Street Anytown, ST 10101 .WE .IA 456 Elsewhere Avenue Nirvana, PA 20406 .IE .LT .P We have a research leak! The next person I catch embedding engineering samples of our Lightspeed Overdrive 2048-core processors in cork coasters distributed at trade shows is going to regret it. .FC .SG .NS sundry careless people .NE At first, it appears that DWB 3.3 _mm_ didn't put vertical space before the date when formatting such a letter. $ DWBHOME=~/dwb ~/dwb/bin/nroff -mm ATTIC/simpler-letter.mm | cat -s 123 Main Street Anytown, ST 10101 October 26, 2024 456 Elsewhere Avenue Nirvana, PA 20406 We have a research leak! The next person I catch embedding engineering samples of our Lightspeed Overdrive 2048-core processors in cork coasters distributed at trade shows is going to regret it. Yours very truly, Copy to sundry careless people ...but this is contradicted by [https://tkurtbond.github.io/troff/mm-all.pdf an example in the DWB 3.3 manual (p. D-2, PDF p. 60)]. Checking DWB _troff_, rather than _nroff_, output is revealing. $ DWBHOME=~/dwb ~/dwb/bin/troff -a -mm ATTIC/simpler-letter.mm | cat -s 123 Main Street Anytown, ST 10101 October 26, 2024 456 Elsewhere Avenue Nirvana, PA 20406 We have a research leak! The next person I catch embedding engineering samples of our Lightspeed Overdrive 2048-core processors in cork coasters distributed at trade shows is going to regret it. Yours very truly, \XINFO:[NOTATION LIST: CODE = , TYPE = Copy to] \XINFO:[NOTATION LIST: <START>] Copy to sundry careless people \XINFO:[NOTATION LIST: <END>] (Heirloom Doctools _mm_ has some pretty bad regressions relative to DWB 3.3 and so I won't show its output.) _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66380> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
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