URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66442>
Summary: [ms] Change due to #62688 wrecks vertical spacing
model
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: keithmarshall
Submitted: Thu 14 Nov 2024 06:27:52 PM UTC
Category: Macro package ms
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Incorrect behaviour
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Date: Thu 14 Nov 2024 06:27:52 PM UTC By: Keith Marshall <keithmarshall>
While I agree with the premise that accumulation of display space is
undesirable, the solution for that problem, as implemented under bug #62688,
(and as you've already observed), was naïve in the extreme.
You did make an attempt to redress this, under bug #64005. Unfortunately, the
damage inflicted under bug #64688 was _much_ more extensive, and insidious,
than that identified in bug #64005; activation of no-space mode, after output
of \n[DD] space is *not* the solution to bug #62688, because it inhibits *all*
forms of explicitly user-specified vertical spacing requests, e.g. explicit
.sp requests to add an explicit amount of extra vertical space, or to move to
a specific vertical position on the page.
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