Re: [Groff] [mom][bug][patch] NUMBER_LINES and tbl

2013-09-03 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013, Robin Haberkorn wrote: > found and fixed another bug in the mom macros. > Her handling of NUMBER_LINES if tbl is used was buggy. > If you used NUMBER_LINES to turn on line numbering, turned it off and > then used tbl tables, the table was numbered. Naturally if you resumed > l

Re: [Groff] question about .rs and .nop

2013-09-03 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > Otherwise, how would you do it? Well, the section macro could > perhaps query register "nl" (vertical position of last printed > text base-line), but that may be a bit chancy (depending on, > for example, whether you output or not a page header on tha

Re: [Groff] question about .rs and .nop

2013-09-03 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > > > The problem you see is related to header traps. [...] and > > > this behaviour is not controllable by `rs'. It seems that > > > after the top header trap mom plants other, probably unused > > > vertical traps. > > > Any suggestion for a clea

Re: [Groff] groff index generation (for mom)

2013-09-03 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sun, Sep 01, 2013, Johann Höchtl wrote: > And mom-specific: > * Does MOM have a macro for page break (or is .bp save?) Use NEWPAGE. There are a few conditions that mitigate against using .bp safely all the time. > and a way to set text in two columns with automatic overflow, when > the main t

Re: [Groff] groff index generation (for mom)

2013-09-03 Thread Johann Höchtl
On 2013-09-03 21:45, Peter Schaffter wrote: On Sun, Sep 01, 2013, Johann Höchtl wrote: And mom-specific: * Does MOM have a macro for page break (or is .bp save?) Use NEWPAGE. There are a few conditions that mitigate against using .bp safely all the time. The Documentation for mom is superb,

Re: [Groff] question about .rs and .nop

2013-09-03 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 01:40:31PM -0400, Peter Schaffter wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > > However, when the user explicitely requests a new page, this seems > > not to be needed: he/she knows that following text goes to a new page > > and should be free to position it where

Re: [Groff] groff index generation (for mom)

2013-09-03 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013, Johann Höchtl wrote: > On 2013-09-03 21:45, Peter Schaffter wrote: > >>and a way to set text in two columns with automatic overflow, when > >>the main text is set single-column? > > > >I'm having trouble visualizing this, but I think the answer is no. > Yes, I was to succinct.

Re: [Groff] question about .rs and .nop

2013-09-03 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > why have I to use ADD_SPACE instead of SP just because I am at the > top of the page? > Seems to me an unneeded complication. Is there a deeper reason to > make SP disfunctional after an *explicit* page break? The only way to disable no-space mode aft