On 5/1/23, Oliver Corff <oliver.co...@email.de> wrote: >>>> Also, how do I force a column to break? .bp forces a page break, it >>>> does not break a column. ... > I found that me has a .bc macro which simply is defined as .sp 24i and > it works as desired.
It works as desired in many situations, and this is how -me defined .bc for decades, but it was redefined in late 2021 in commit a51b2994 (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=a51b2994) (a refinement of an earlier 2021 commit) because the original definition fails in nroff mode if you're doing continuous rendering by setting the page length to a very large value. The macro is currently defined as: .sp \\n(.pu This is more general as it makes no assumptions about the current page length.
