On 8/31/2025 3:17 AM, Thomas Morley wrote:
Actually, this is not a problem of string-lines or column-lines.
`markuplist` itself fails:
\markuplist { "A" "" "C" }
with:
programming error: insane spring min_distance requested, ignoring it
Thank you so much for looking into this! And for your revised
string-lines function, which allows me to get back to work.
About the markuplist failure you mentioned above, I'm curious why that
failure does not propagate into subsequent markuplists in the same way
that I found with the full column-line string-lines approach I showed in
my previous mail.
For example, in this code the error in the first markuplist does not
affect the D E F markuplist.
\markuplist { "A" "" "C" }
\markuplist { "D" "E" "F" }
Maybe it's because this particular error just doesn't trigger the
one-line-per-page problem I was having.
That's in contrast to the code below which does propagate paging
problems into D E F.
\markuplist { \column-lines \string-lines "A\n \n C" }
\markuplist { \column-lines \string-lines "D\n E\n F" }
Of course, your string-lines-rev would handle this fine, thank you.
But even just column-lines alone will propagate pagination problems into
D E F:
\markuplist { \column-lines { "A" "" "C" } }
\markuplist { \column-lines { "D" "E" "F" } }
Somehow column-lines makes the markuplist / pagination problems much
more severe.
Anyway, just curious. I'll happily be using your string-lines-rev for
my extended stanzas.
Thanks again,
Jeff
