At 2024-01-23T19:10:00-0600, Dave Kemper wrote: > On 1/23/24, T. Kurt Bond <tkurtb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a groff -ms source file > [...] > > When I groff it with version 1.23.0 the page breaks > > corresponding to the explicit .bp requests are missing. > > This item in the (very lengthy) NEWS file for 1.23 probably explains > the change you're seeing: > > The s (ms) macro package now enables the formatter's "no-space mode" > after ending displays (`DE`), equations (`EN`), tables (`TE`), and > pictures without flyback (`PE`). This means that display distance > spacing (the `DD` register) overrides the spacing that may follow in > a subsequent paragraph, section heading, or display instead of > accumulating with that distance. This change is to make the behavior > of the package more predictable; you can fine-tune such spacing by > setting the `DD` register in desired places. It has also helped us > to improve groff ms's rendering of historical ms(7) documents such as > Kernighan & Cherry's "Typesetting Mathematics". > > As documented, .bp has no effect in no-space mode. You can force it > to start a new page anyway by defining your own simple macro that > first disables no-space mode (via the .rs request), then invokes .bp. > Then call that macro where you'd normally call .bp.
Thanks for clearing this up, Dave. I'll amend the NEWS item to mention page breaks as well. That won't help a lot of people since 1.23.0 is already out, but it may help a few in the future. Regards, Branden
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