Hi Ingo,
While poking my nose around the Web to observe groff 1.23.0 uptake, I
noticed OpenBSD's patch to groff's troffrc file.
https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/textproc/groff/patches/patch-tmac_troffrc?rev=1.6&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
The following change concerns me:
+
Hi Robin,
I'm sorry it's taken a while for me to get back to you. We finally got
groff 1.23.0 released and I was pretty preoccupied with that.
At 2023-06-24T02:29:26+0300, Robin Haberkorn wrote:
> I was trying to set up an ms-document with small page margins (see
> attachment), but I don't seem
Upon updating from 1.22.4 to 1.23.0 this pic delimiter
.PS 6i
failed; it worked in 1.22.4. The updated pic turns it into
.PS 6.000i 6.000i 6i
which causes groff -ms to barf:
s.tmac: ... error: .PS: expected 2 arguments, got 3; not
preprocessed with pic?
groff, pic, and tmac.s were a
Douglas McIlroy writes:
> groff, pic, and tmac.s were all updated. I can find no dregs from
> 1.22.4 on my computer.
Run setup.exe and select the previous version?
> A third party had their fingers on the code: cygwin. Is this
> inconsistency their fault, is it inherent in 1.23.0, or is it
> some
On 7/17/23, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> Upon updating from 1.22.4 to 1.23.0 this pic delimiter
> .PS 6i
> failed; it worked in 1.22.4. The updated pic turns it into
> .PS 6.000i 6.000i 6i
1.22.4 pic also turned it into that, so it is -ms's behavior that has changed.
$ cat pictest
.PS 6i
c
Hi Doug & Dave,
At 2023-07-17T10:33:30-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> which causes groff -ms to barf:
> s.tmac: ... error: .PS: expected 2 arguments, got 3; not
> preprocessed with pic?
Thanks for trying out groff 1.23.0! I hope it seems like an improvement
in respects other than this one.
