Re: [Groff] Re: Mysteries of .em request

2009-04-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I've long been baffled by the .em macro, not knowing how to get it > to emit more than one final page, disastrous for split tables, > floats, indexes and so on. I have long resorted to an explicit user > end document macro, using .em only to ensure it is given. My documentation is still not fi

Re: [Groff] Re: Mysteries of .em request

2009-04-15 Thread Larry Kollar
Werner LEMBERG wrote: ... my summary of the whole issue is that I'll probably implement an `.em1' request which doesn't have this silly restriction -- or can someone name any reason for this bizarre behaviour of `.em'? I'm guessing the original intent and assumption for .em was to make sure