On 9/17/14, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> It would be interesting to see your real-case situation. Can you
> elaborate on that?
Sadly, no. I created the example file on my system over a year ago,
intending to post it at the time, but I never got around to it. I no
longer recall what problem I was tr
> When I opened a report in the bug tracker on this, Werner responded
> that this is working as designed.
I still think so.
> While I understand the design of how diversions are implemented, and
> why that implementation might produce these results, I contend that
> this design is so poor as to
Dave --
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On 9/17/14, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> > I think you're using the diversion wrong.
>
> This is, admittedly, an artificial example cooked up to illustrate the
> behavior. This is clearly a situation where a diversion, or even a
> macro, would be u
> The question I'm posing is whether a user who uses a
> diversion in this "wrong" (or, let's say, less than optimal)
> manner should see output that is so clearly not what was
> intended, or whether the software should do something
> intelligent with the user's suboptimal input, producing
> outpu
Dave Kemper wrote:
> The question I'm posing is whether a user who uses a diversion in this
> "wrong" (or, let's say, less than optimal)
Wrong is the correct word here.
> manner should see output
> that is so clearly not what was intended, or whether the software
> should do something intellige
On 9/17/14, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> I think you're using the diversion wrong.
This is, admittedly, an artificial example cooked up to illustrate the
behavior. This is clearly a situation where a diversion, or even a
macro, would be unnecessary at all.
The question I'm posing is whether a user
Dave Kemper wrote:
> .nm +1
> Text before diversion.
> Text before diversion.
> Text before diversion.
> Text before diversion.
> Text before diversion.
> Text before diversion.
> Text before diversion.
> Text before diversion.
> .br
> .di my_diversion
> Diverted text.
> Diverted text.
> Diverted
> The problem with the above input can be seen in either text or
> PostScript output in groff 1.22.2. Using nroff, the output is
I think you're using the diversion wrong.
Diversions are meant for storing *formatted* text. If you're not
replaying the diversion in no-fill mode (and you're not), y
.nm +1
Text before diversion.
Text before diversion.
Text before diversion.
Text before diversion.
Text before diversion.
Text before diversion.
Text before diversion.
Text before diversion.
.br
.di my_diversion
Diverted text.
Diverted text.
Diverted text.
Diverted text.
Diverted text.
Diverted tex
