Time for a little thread necromancy. And a bit of 1.24.0 status.
At 2023-04-25T10:05:14-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> > $ ./build/test-groff -Tutf8
> .> nr a 3c
> > .nr b 3cm
> > .tm a=\na, b=\nb
> > a=283, b=283
[I wrote:]
> > This suggests that one could get away with "3in" as well. Yeesh.
>
On 2023-04-24 21:59 -0400, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2023, Frederic Chartier wrote:
> > I'm running groff 1.22.3, by the way. It's been patched but not
> > since 2016 so if it's bugs I'm seeing, they're not new.
>
> Can you check whether you're using the latest version of mom
> (2.5
Frederic --
At 2023-04-24T01:37:00+0200, Frederic Chartier wrote:
> I've stumbled on another problem with -mom. There is a table at
> the bottom of a page. After the table, something inserts what
> behaves like a line feed and Groff warns that
>
> [mom]: '2023-04-24.mom', macro TE, line 61:
>
At 2023-04-25T10:05:14-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> > $ ./build/test-groff -Tutf8
> .> nr a 3c
> > .nr b 3cm
> > .tm a=\na, b=\nb
> > a=283, b=283
>
> > This suggests that one could get away with "3in" as well. Yeesh.
> > Not sure how I feel about that. I think I'd prefer to have Yet
> > Anoth
> $ ./build/test-groff -Tutf8
.> nr a 3c
> .nr b 3cm
> .tm a=\na, b=\nb
> a=283, b=283
> This suggests that one could get away with "3in" as well. Yeesh. Not
> sure how I feel about that. I think I'd prefer to have Yet Another
> Warning Diagnostic for non-pristine input syntax.
Beware of the
Hi, Branden.
On Mon, Apr 24, 2023, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Regardless, when I process the document with groff 1.23.0.rc1.3711-25fb
> > and mom-2.5_c, passing pdfmom the -b flag (but not the -w flag), I
> > receive a string of errors of the form
> >
> > troff: backtrace: '2023-04-24.mom':
Frederick --
On Mon, Apr 24, 2023, Frederic Chartier wrote:
> I'm running groff 1.22.3, by the way. It's been patched but not
> since 2016 so if it's bugs I'm seeing, they're not new.
Can you check whether you're using the latest version of mom
(2.5_c)? If not, you can get it at
https://www.s
[self-clarification]
At 2023-04-24T18:13:09-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Space management around tables is the responsibility of each macro
> package. The job of tbl(1) itself is to render the table. There was
> a bug in the past several versions of groff in this area, but it
> involved ma
Hi Frederic,
At 2023-04-24T21:56:58+0200, Frederic Chartier wrote:
> Here's another tbl-related problem I've encountered, in case the two
> are connected. Groff acts as if every table were preceded by an empty
> paragraph. This is why there is so much vertical space between the
> headings and the
Hi Peter,
Thanks for riding to my support-department rescue. :)
At 2023-04-24T14:55:00-0400, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> > Something's gone badly wrong, and I'm not sure what.
>
> Indeed.
>
> > Possibly the document's state is invalid (mom(7) is not
> > implemented sloppily).
>
> The document is
On 2023-04-24 14:55 -0400, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> I've never seen this behaviour before. It's been a while since I
> needed tbl(1) in a mom document so I'm thinking it crept in during
> one of the past year's bazillion commits. Most likely something to
> do with tbl(1) or with gropdf(1). At a
Sorry for top-quoting Branden's reply _in toto_ but it will make
replying easier.
On Sun, Apr 23, 2023, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Frederic,
>
> At 2023-04-24T01:37:00+0200, Frederic Chartier wrote:
> > I've stumbled on another problem with -mom. There is a table at
> > the bottom of a page.
Hi Frederic,
At 2023-04-24T01:37:00+0200, Frederic Chartier wrote:
> I've stumbled on another problem with -mom. There is a table at
> the bottom of a page. After the table, something inserts what
> behaves like a line feed and Groff warns that
>
> [mom]: '2023-04-24.mom', macro TE, line 61:
I've stumbled on another problem with -mom. There is a table at
the bottom of a page. After the table, something inserts what
behaves like a line feed and Groff warns that
[mom]: '2023-04-24.mom', macro TE, line 61:
Insufficient room for label, caption, and/or source after
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