On Tue 01 Nov 2016 15:56:49 Peter Schaffter wrote: > This is a question for Deri James. > > Is there some reason why, in pdfmom, the system() call to groff at > line 125 does not include '$preconv' in the first pass? > > I've been working on flexible vertical whitespace in the mom macros, > using pdfmom's PDF.EXPORT to assign first-pass strings with the > correct amount of flex-space for each page. > > I was using pdfmom to process my test file, which needed both the -t > and -k flags. At first, I couldn't get my flex spacing system to > perform reliably. After a couple of days of debugging and coming up > with nothing, it occured to me to process the file long-hand at the > command line instead of using pdfmom, like this > > groff -Tpdf -dPDF.EXPORT=1 \ > -mom -z -t -k test-file.mom 2>&1 \ > > | grep '^\. *ds' | \ > > groff -Tpdf -mom -t -k - test-file.mom \ > > > test-file.pdf > > That's when I discovered that pdfmom wasn't picking up the -t and -k > flags on the first groff pass. Inserting $preconv into the first > pass in pdfmom solved the reliability issue. I can't figure out why > it isn't there already.
I've now added it.
