On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 00:25 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 16-Sep-07 22:15:55, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> > I don't think classic troff mm's ":p" has ever been in groff's mm, > >> > which has used "ft*nr" as long as I've known it (about 1990)! > >> > >> The obvious "solution" to that "problem" is to add: > >> > >> .als :p ft*nr > >> > >> to the mm macros like is done for other obscure number registers. > > > > In case this fixes the problem I'll apply this change to the source > > file. Luke, can you verify it? > > > > Werner > > I would like to suggest that, before anything is done generally > in groff, we should get to the bottom of where this ":p" is > coming from. > I have an old dwb copy of mm (the one with comments removed and "extraneous" spaces removed) ... and it does indeed use the :p number register for this purpose. At least, it has such a register:
.nr:p 0 1 and the footnote marker, as described in man 7 groff_mm, uses this register: .dsF \u\\n+(:p\d It is conditionally reset to 0 during the .H macro. > I don't have access to macro files for other troffs at the > moment, but I've browsed around in such documentation as > I can find, without seeing a reference to a number register > ":p" in mm. Not that this disproves its existence, since > a lot of troff documentation (indeed like a lot of groff's) > doe not refer much to "internal registers"; nor have I got > access to much documentation! > > Perhaps ":p" is specific to a particular version of troff, > as used by Luke's wife for her thesis. If it's not generic, > then I doubt we should add too many such "special patches" > to groff. > > So let's wait for Luke to tell us more detail! In particular, > which "make" of troff, what year, version of mm macros? Since mine is stripped of comments, I can't tell you the version number, simply that to the best of my knowledge this is original DWB. > > Best wishes to all, > Ted. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 > Date: 17-Sep-07 Time: 00:25:15 > ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ > >
