Re: Oversized Tables - how to produce non-truncated PDF?

2024-07-19 Thread Oliver Corff
Hi Branden, thank you for everything! At the moment I cannot recall whether I even tried A2. Something along the process chain did not seem to work well, but as the attempts to create these behemoths took place approx. 3 years ago I do not remember exactly the command setup and, in case of failu

GNU troff converted to checked integer arithmetic

2024-07-19 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi folks, I've made my "deepest" change yet to the formatter, altering code that hasn't changed since James Clark wrote it circa 1989. However, I think it unlikely that any user will notice any difference. Traditionally, *roff arithmetic is a thin wrapper around C arithmetic, using signed integ

Re: GNU troff converted to checked integer arithmetic

2024-07-19 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[self-follow-up] At 2024-07-19T14:47:01-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > (I wanted to cite a classic CS paper here about integer arithmetic > setting forth the alternatives of trapping, wrapping, and saturating, > but while I've read it, I can't find it now. :-/ ) Saying this and sending the m